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Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness AO (
27 October 1938 –
26 January 2008) was an
Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. Beginning his career on the
far left, he found fame as a
right-wing contrarian. Finishing his career as the editor of the
conservative journal,
Quadrant, he also worked as a columnist for
The Australian and for
The Sydney Morning Herald and as the editor of
The Australian Financial Review.
McGuinness attended
St Ignatius' College, Riverview then obtained a scholarship to Sydney Boys' High School and studied economics at
Sydney University (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.
After a short career as an economics lecturer at the then
N.S.W. University of Technology, McGuinness moved to London where he worked with the Moscow Narodny [People's] Bank, an arm of the Soviet Government, from 1966 to 1967and continued his studies at the
London School of Economics. He later served the
OECD in Paris, returning to Sydney in 1971.
In 1973-74, he served the
Whitlam Labor Government as an economic adviser to the
Minister for Social Security,
Bill Hayden, who was engaged in establishing
Medibank and framing restrictive regulation for private hospitals and nursing homes. After that, McGuinness's career was chiefly in journalism, including senior editorial positions at
The Australian Financial Review (1974-87) and column-writing for
The Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age and
The Australian.
His father,
Frank McGuinness, started the Sydney newspaper
The Daily Mirror in 1941.
According to fellow newspaper columnist and colleague Frank Devine,"Paddy was the quintessential independent thinker, scorning humbug and stupidity. He was a bloodthirsty predator among those he identified as members of the chattering classes".
The day before his funeral, former Prime Minister
Paul Keating attacked him by calling him a fraud and a liar.
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