Mr Paul Kelly
University of Sydney Alumnus

Paul Kelly is the International Editor of The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian (1991-1996).

He has spent much of the past 25 years as a political correspondent and newspaper and TV commentator on politics. Paul Kelly has covered the governments of Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, Keating and now John Howard.

After graduating from Sydney University he worked in the Prime Minister's Department in Canberra (1969-71) before transferring to journalism. His positions as a journalist have included Chief Political Correspondent with The Australian (1974-1975), The National Times (1976-1978), Deputy Editor, National Times (1978-79) and Chief Political Correspondent, The Sydney Morning Herald (1981-1984). He was national affairs Editor of The Australian (1985-1991).

Paul Kelly is the author of six successful books. The Unmaking of Gough (1976), which later became The Dismissal (1982), The Hawke Ascendancy (1984), The End of Certainty (1992) on the politics and economics of Australia in the 1980s, November 1975 published in 1995 and, more recently, a collection of articles Paradise Divided (2000). The End of Certainty was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most comprehensive account of Australian polity since that of Sir Keith Hancock half a century ago".

He wrote and presented the 2001 five-part television documentary for the ABC on Australian history and character '100 Years - The Australian Story'. He has also released a book with the same title.

Paul Kelly has written widely on international affairs in America, Europe and Asia. This has included interviews with Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew, Madeleine Albright, Tony Blair and Jiang Zemin.

He is a former member of the Australia-Indonesia Institute Board, a former director of The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and is currently Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Queensland and a participant in the Australia-America Leadership Dialogue. In 2002 Paul Kelly has been a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

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