Gerard Henderson Biography
Gerard Henderson is an Australian author, columnist and political commentator born in 1945. He is the founder of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded Australian current affairs forum, that he runs.
Gerard Henderson Age
He was born on 10 September in 1945. He is 73 years old as of 2018.
Gerard Henderson Wife
He is married to Anne Henderson.
Gerard Henderson Daughter
He has a daughter by the name Elizabeth Henderson.
Gerard Henderson Education
He went to the Jesuit Xavier College in Melbourne and later studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne before completing a PhD. He was President of the DLP,Democratic Labor Party,Club at the University of Melbourne. The DLP Club just like other political clubs at the University of Melbourne during the 1960s, was not affiliated with the political party of the same name, but supported DLP policies and hosted speeches by DLP parliamentarians on campus.
Gerard Henderson Career
Henderson was a teacher at Tasmania and La Trobe universities before working for four years on the staff of Kevin Newman in Malcolm Fraser’s Coalition government. In 1980 he moved to the Department of Industrial Relations ; from 1984 to 1986 he was Chief-of-Staff to John Howard, during which time Howard was Deputy Leader, then Leader, of the Liberal Party of Australia.
He was appointed by the Keating government to the board of the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities. Later, he was appointed by the Howard government to the Foreign Affairs Council. In April 2008, he was one of the people invited to Kevin Rudd’s Australia 2020 Summit .
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Henderson profiled former prime minister Bob Hawke for the ABC TV program Four Corners in 1994. Currently he works as a political commentator on radio, and appears occasionally on Insiders, another ABC TV program.
Henderson had a weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald, for several years. He also writes a weekly compendium of media criticism,Media Watch Dog, written from the perspective of a blue heeler named Nancy.His column moved to The Weekend Australian, in December 2013, which also carries Media Watch Dog.
Gerard Henderson Books
- Mr Santamaria and the Bishops
- Australian Answers
- Gerard Henderson Scribbles On
- Menzies’ Child: The Liberal Party of Australia
- A Howard Government? Inside the Coalition
- Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man
Gerard Henderson Blog | Media Watch Dog
Media Watch Dog – The Sydney Institute
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