Paul Kelly (journalist)

Paul Kelly (journalist)

Paul John Kelly (born 11 October 1947) is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975. His latest book, The March of Patriots, chronicles the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Prime Ministers, Paul Keating and John Howard. Kelly is a political commentator on radio and television and presented the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV documentary series, 100 Years – The Australian Story (2001) and wrote a book of the same title.

In 2006, Kelly's work was described by fellow Australian journalists, Toby Creswell and Samantha Trenoweth, " is distinguished for his broad and deep grasp of the inter-relationship of economics and political shifts, and his ability to place Australian domestic developments into an international and historical context".