Don Whitington
{{Short description|Australian political journalist and author (1911–1977)}}
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Bertram Lindon "Don" Whitington (31 January 1911 – 5 May 1977) was an Australian political journalist and author.
Life
A member of the Whitington family of South Australia, whose family arrived in Australia in 1840, Don Whitington was born in Ballarat and grew up in Tasmania. He worked as a jackaroo in New South Wales before he moved to Sydney in 1933 and began working as a journalist. In 1941 he was appointed to head the Canberra office of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and thereafter he remained based in Canberra.{{cite web | url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitington-bertram-lindon-don-12019| title = Whitington, Bertram Lindon (Don) (1911–1977)|work= Australian Dictionary of Biography| author-link=John Farquharson (journalist)|first=John|last=Farquharson|publisher = ADB| accessdate = 16 August 2015}} In 1947 he founded the newsletter Inside Canberra (http://insidecanberra.com
Whitington wrote several books on federal politics and two novels. In 1968 he wrote a series of articles for The Age on the political, racial and economic problems faced by the then Australian territory of Papua New Guinea.The Age, 18 June 1968, p. 4; 19 June 1968, p. 4; 20 June 1968, p. 4. His unfinished autobiography was published the year after he died of a heart attack.
His first marriage, of 1936, produced three children but ended in divorce. He married again in 1974.
Books
- The House Will Divide: A Review of Australian Federal Politics (1954, 1969)
- Ring the Bells: A Dictionary of Australian Federal Politics (1956)
- Treasure Upon the Earth (1957) (novel)
- Mile Pegs (1963) republished in 1978 under the title King Hit (novel)
- The Rulers: Fifteen Years of the Liberals (1964)
- In Search of an Australian (1967)
- The Effluent Society: Pollution in Australia (1970)
- Inside Canberra: A Guide to Australian Federal Politics (1971) (written with Rob Chalmers)
- The Menzies Era and After, 1949–1970 (1972)
- Twelfth Man? (1972)
- The Witless Men (1975)
- Strive to Be Fair: An Unfinished Autobiography (1978)
References
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External links
- [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitington-bertram-lindon-don-12019 John Farquharson, "Whitington, Bertram Lindon (Don) (1911–1977)"], Australian Dictionary of Biography
- [http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/476162?q=whitington%2C+don&c=people Don Whitington resources] at the National Library of Australia
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Category:Australian political journalists