Editing Paul Kelly (journalist) (section)

==Life and career==
Paul John Kelly was born on 11 October 1947 in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]].<ref name="WhosWho">{{cite book |title=[[Who's Who in Australia]] |publisher=Crown Content |year=2009 |last1=Sullivan |first1=Leanne |edition=45 |isbn=978-1-74095-166-1 }}</ref> He is the son of Joseph Kelly and Sybil (née Mackenzie). He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and [[Diploma of Education]] at the [[University of Sydney]] in 1969.<ref name="Creswell"/> He worked in the [[Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)|Prime Minister's Department]] in [[Canberra]] from 1969 to 1971 before changing to journalism.<ref name="UniSyd">{{cite web |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/archives/our-people/honorary-award-holders.html |title=Honorary-award holders – Paul John Kelly |publisher=[[University of Sydney]] |date=14 May 2009 |access-date=10 August 2010}}</ref> He is a [[Doctor of Letters]] from the [[University of Melbourne]].<ref name="Lowy">{{cite web |url=http://www.lowyinstitute.org/StaffBio.asp?pid=468 |title=Paul Kelly – Lowy Institute Staff Member |publisher=[[Lowy Institute]] |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125003257/http://lowyinstitute.org/StaffBio.asp?pid=468 |archive-date=25 November 2010  }}</ref>

He joined the [[Canberra Press Gallery]] in 1971 and became chief political correspondent for ''[[The Australian]]'' from 1974 to 1975.<ref name="Creswell"/> From 1976 to 1978 he was chief political correspondent for ''[[The National Times]]'', then its deputy editor from 1978 to 1979. He became chief political correspondent for the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' from 1981 to 1984. He returned to ''The Australian'' and was its national affairs editor from 1985 to 1991, editor-in-chief from 1991 to 1996 and editor-at-large from 1996 to the present.<ref name="UniSyd"/>

Aside from journalism, Kelly has written books describing political developments starting with ''The Unmaking of Gough'' (1976) on the [[Australian constitutional crisis of 1975]] and Prime Minister [[Gough Whitlam]] (later titled ''The Dismissal : Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle : The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam''). He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, [[Bob Hawke]] (''The Hawke Ascendency'', 1984), [[Paul Keating]] (''The End of Certainty'', 1992) and [[John Howard]] (''Howard's Decade'', 2006). His ''The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia'' (2009) deals with economic and political developments under Keating and Howard as Australia entered the globalised age.<ref name="LawBook">{{cite web |url=http://www.lawbooks.com.au/book/the-keating-howard-years.do |title=The March of Patriots |publisher=LawBooks (Emporium Retail Group) |year=2009 |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230173507/http://www.lawbooks.com.au/book/the-keating-howard-years.do |archive-date=30 December 2012  }}</ref> ''[[Triumph & Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation]]'' (2014) chronicles the rise and fall of the Australian Labor Party governments of [[Kevin Rudd]] and [[Julia Gillard]] (2007–2013).<ref>{{cite news |first=Rosie |last=Lewis |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/politics-news/governments-age-of-reform-isnt-over-just-interrupted-says-abbott/story-fn59nqld-1227037474039 |title=Government's age of reform isn't over, just interrupted, says Abbott |work=[[The Australian]] |date=26 August 2014 }}</ref>

His book ''The Dismissal'' was used as the basis of the television miniseries ''[[The Dismissal (miniseries)|The Dismissal]]'' shown on [[Network Ten]] from 6 March 1983. Kelly is a political commentator on radio and television (including ''[[Insiders (Australian TV program)|Insiders]]'') and presented the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC) TV documentary series, ''100 Years – The Australian Story'' (2001) and wrote a book of the same title.<ref name="Dismissal">{{cite web |url=http://www.australian-politics-books.com/ccp0-prodshow/the-dismissal-paul-kelly-1975-tv.html |title=The Dismissal – Paul Kelly 1983 Paperback Used – TV tie-in |publisher=Australian Politics Books |access-date=12 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707191017/http://www.australian-politics-books.com/ccp0-prodshow/the-dismissal-paul-kelly-1975-tv.html |archive-date=7 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 19 March 1990, Kelly wrote on [[The Australian]]'' newspaper ran a headline titled ''Peacock a 'danger in the Lodge'.''' when [[Andrew Peacock]] Liberal opposition leader opposed the [[Multifunction Polis]] (MFP), a proposal to build a Japanese funded technology city in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/05/23/opinion-less-matters/|title = The more opinion, the less it matters|date = 23 May 2016}}</ref>

In November 1991, after the massacres at [[Santa Cruz massacre|Santa Cruz]] (near [[Dili]], [[East Timor]]), Kelly had supported Indonesian president [[Suharto]] and declared him to be a moderate with no alternative to his rule.<ref name="Loewenstein">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Books/In-praise-of-Soeharto-the-despot/2005/02/17/1108500195349.html |title=In Praise of Soeharto the Despot |newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=13 February 2005 |access-date=12 August 2010}}</ref> Kelly's support for Suharto continued to 1998 and earned criticism from fellow journalist [[John Pilger]] who compared it to the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.<ref name="Pilger">{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?222768 |title=Chomskyist-Pilgerism |work=Outlook |publisher=Maheshwer Peri (The Outlook Group) |date=28 January 2004 |access-date=12 August 2010 }}</ref>

In November 2012, Kelly criticised the decision of the Gillard government to create the [[Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse]], calling it "profoundly ignorant" and "a depressing example of populist politics".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kelly|first1=Paul|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/commission-on-child-sex-abuse-a-depressing-example-of-populist-politics/news-story/e2b4585db900873efa381bb5f8a94f39?sv=abef404ba04b8e07ae01254aebf54414 |title=Commission on child abuse a depressing example of populist politics |work=[[The Australian]]|date=17 November 2012}}</ref>