Life
Donald Horne's early life was recounted in the first volume of his memoirs The Education of Young Donald (1967). He was born in Kogarah, Sydney and raised in Muswellbrook and Sydney. He enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1939 and went on to a successful career in journalism. Horne worked for a number of Frank Packer's publications, first as a journalist for The Telegraph, then editor of the magazine Weekend, and later the periodical The Observer. As editor of the flagship magazine The Bulletin, he removed the magazine's long standing motto "Australia for the White Man", an action in which he took great pride. He was co-editor of Quadrant Magazine.
He became a professor of political science at the University of New South Wales, and was Chancellor of the University of Canberra from 1992-1995.
He also worked on writing, arts and citizenship boards and was an executive member of the Australian Constitutional Commission.
Throughout his long career, he was unorthodox and independent-minded, without a consistent political allegiance. He was, however, known through much of his public career for his republicanism and opposition to the White Australia Policy.
Despite his academic career, he never completed his undergraduate degree, though he received four honorary doctorates.
He was still giving media interviews up to the last year of his life.
He was named as one of Australia's Living National Treasures by the National Trust. He had two children with his wife Myfanwy Horne.
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