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Maxwell Newton (29 April 1929 – 23 July 1990) was an Australian media publisher. He was a founding editor of ''The Australian''. He was the owner of ''Daily Commercial News'' from 1969 to 1981, publisher of the ''Melbourne Observer'' from 1971 to 1977, and, during a similar time frame, the ''Canberra Post''. ==Biography== Maxwell Newton was born to George William Newton, lead-burner, and his wife Nora Christian, legal secretary, on 28 April 1928 at Nurse Doyle's Private Hospital, in Cottesloe, Western Australia. The family lived with Nora's parents at 17 York Terrace, Mosman Park. At the age of four they moved to Bayswater where Newton was to attend Bayswater State School until the age of 12, when he won a scholarship to the academically selective Perth Modern School. From there he matriculated with exhibitions in English and history. Newton graduated from the University of Western Australia with first class honours in economics and was awarded a Hackett scholarship to attend Clare College, Cambridge.〔 From 1960 to 1964 Newton was editor of the ''Australian Financial Review'', turning it from a weekly to a daily. In 1964 he became founding editor of ''The Australian'' but left in March 1965, after falling out with its owner, Rupert Murdoch. He then became correspondent for the ''London Economist'' and the ''Financial Times'' and in June 1965 began a weekly newsletter in Canberra, the ''Incentive'' (sub-titled ''A Weekly Report on Business Trends and Economic Policy by Maxwell Newton''). In 1957, he became political correspondent for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' in Canberra. Future Prime Minister Billy McMahon would leak details of cabinet meetings to Maxwell, who would then publish them. In 1969, Newton purchased shipping and commercial newspaper Daily Commercial News from Sir Ronald Brierley with funding from Marrickville Holdings. Soon after, in 1971, Newton published the ''Melbourne Observer'' after Gordon Barton closed his ''Sunday Observer''. Newton later renamed his publication as the ''Sunday Observer''. As the paper was only issued once a week Newton began publishing teen magazines (such as ''Scream'' and ''Sweet''), entertainment publications (''National Tattler'' and ''TV Guide'') and soft-core pornography (''Pleazure'', ''Eros'' and ''Kings Cross Whisper'') to keep the presses running. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maxwell Newton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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