Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large of The Australian. He was previously
Editor-in-Chief of the paper and he writes on Australian politics,
public policy and international affairs.
Paul has covered Australian governments from Gough Whitlam to Kevin
Rudd and spent two decades in the Canberra Press Gallery. He is a
regular commentator on ABC Television for the Insiders program.
Paul is the author of six books- The Unmaking of Gough, The Hawke
Ascendancy, The End of Certainty, November 1975, Paradise Divided
and 100 Years- The Australian Story.
In 2001 he presented a five-part documentary series for the ABC on
Australia's first century. Paul was Graham Perkin Journalist of the
Year (1990) and Weary Dunlop medallist for 2005. He has been a
Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a
long-time participant in the Australia-America Leadership Dialogue,
and is a former board member of the Australia-Indonesia Institute.
"[Kelly] has woven this material into an excellent book which is
surgical in the analysis of the tumultuous politics of the period.
He combines a fascinating narrative and an analysis of contemporary
politics." --Adelaide Advertiser
"This is one of the most revealing books so far written on
contemporary history in Australia." --Weekend Australian
"This project is marked by the sheer scale of its research, the
sustained momentum of the narrative, the clarity of the analysis
and the confident authority of the insider." --Sydney Morning
Herald
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