Padraic McGuinness
| Padraic McGuinness | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 October 1938 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 26 January 2008 (aged 69) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Other names | Paddy McGuinness, P. P. McGuinness |
| Occupation | Journalist, newspaper editor |
| Known for | Views as a political commentator |
Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness AO (27 October 1938 – 26 January 2008) was an Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. He was notable for the evolution over his lifetime of his political beliefs. Beginning his career on the far left, he subsequently worked as a policy assistant to the more moderate (but still leftist) Labor parliamentarian Bill Hayden. Later he found fame as a right-wing contrarian and finished his career as the editor of the conservative journal, Quadrant. He had also worked as a columnist for The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald and as the editor of The Australian Financial Review.
McGuinness, named after Patrick Pearse, was the younger son of Frank McGuinness (1900-1949), who was the inaugural editor of Ezra Norton's Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror in 1941. Padraic attended, first, St Ignatius' College, Riverview (from his time there he dated the atheist attitudes which remained constant in his adult life, whatever his changes of ideological allegiance) and then obtained a scholarship to attend Sydney Boys' High School. He studied economics at the University of Sydney (B.Ec., Hons, 1960), where he became a prominent member of the Sydney Push in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At this time he identified as an anarchist but also joined the Labor Party.
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