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Don Whitington
Bertram Lindon "Don" Whitington (31 January 1911 – 5 May 1977) was an Australian political journalist and author.
==Life==
Don Whitington was born in Ballarat a member of the distinguished Whitington family of South Australia, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 John Farquharson, "Whitington, Bertram Lindon (Don) (1911–1977)", Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 In 1947 he founded the newsletter ''Inside Canberra'', which has been published ever since.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.busicom.com.au/data/about_us.htm )〕 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.〔
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.〔''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.〔
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