Don Whitington

Bertram Lindon "Don" Whitington (31 January 1911 – 5 May 1977) was an Australian political journalist and author.

Life

A member of the distinguished Whitington family of South Australia, 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.[1] In 1947 he founded the newsletter Inside Canberra, which has been published ever since.[2] He and his business partner Eric White began a media company, and in the 1950s they founded two newspapers, the Northern Territory News and the Mount Isa Mail, both of which they later sold to Rupert Murdoch.[1]

He 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.[3] 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.[1]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 Farquharson, John. "Whitington, Bertram Lindon (Don) (1911–1977)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. ADB. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ ""Inside Canberra" history". www.busicom.com.au. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ↑ The Age, 18 June 1968, p. 4; 19 June 1968, p. 4; 20 June 1968, p. 4.

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