Donald Horne honoured
3 May 2005
One of Australia's most prominent writers and public intellectuals has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Sydney.
Emeritus Professor, Donald Horne, journalist, editor and author of numerous books including the pathbreaking social analysis of contemporary Australia The Lucky Country was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a graduation ceremony for Arts graduates on Friday 29th April.
Donald Horne enrolled in a BA in 1939 and his days at University are vividly recounted in the first volume of his memoirs The Education of Young Donald (1967). He went on to a prominent career in the Frank Packer media empire, first as a journalist for The Telegraph, then as editor of the magazine Weekend, then the periodical The Observer and then as editor of the flagship magazine The Bulletin where he removed the magazines longstanding masthead motto 'Australia for the White Man'. He has published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis.
Read Donald Horne's speech.
Emeritus Professor, Donald Horne, journalist, editor and author of numerous books including the pathbreaking social analysis of contemporary Australia The Lucky Country was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a graduation ceremony for Arts graduates on Friday 29th April.
Donald Horne enrolled in a BA in 1939 and his days at University are vividly recounted in the first volume of his memoirs The Education of Young Donald (1967). He went on to a prominent career in the Frank Packer media empire, first as a journalist for The Telegraph, then as editor of the magazine Weekend, then the periodical The Observer and then as editor of the flagship magazine The Bulletin where he removed the magazines longstanding masthead motto 'Australia for the White Man'. He has published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis.
Read Donald Horne's speech.