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Don Watson was born on 1949 in Australia, is an Australian author and public speaker. Discover Don Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Don Watson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Don Watson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Don Watson worth at the age of 75 years old? Don Watson’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. He is from Australia. We have estimated Don Watson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Don Watson (born 1949) is an Australian author, screenwriter, former political adviser, and speechwriter.
Watson was born in 1949 at Warragul in the Gippsland region of Victoria, and grew up on a farm in nearby Korumburra.
Watson studied for his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and latterly completed PhD at Monash University before spending ten years working as an academic historian.
He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his hand to TV and the stage.
For several years he combined writing political satire for the actor Max Gillies with political speeches for the then Premier of Victoria, John Cain.
In 1992, he became Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating's speech-writer and adviser.
Watson's historical work in exposing the role of pioneer pastoralist Angus McMillan as a leader of several massacres of Gunai Kurnai people in Gippsland, Victoria, has often been quoted in articles about the man and the massacres.
In Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, Watson described his writing of the Redfern Park Speech in 1992, which, he claims, by way of praising Keating for his courage, the Prime Minister delivered without changing a single word.
Keating has disputed Watson's authorship, saying the speech developed out of dozens of conversations between them.
He has an adult daughter from an earlier marriage, and two young children with the writer Chloe Hooper.
Watson's 2001 Quarterly Essay Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America won the inaugural Alfred Deakin Prize in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Watson, together with Rachel Perkins, Jacob Hickey and Darren Dale, won the 2023 Digital History Prize, New South Wales Premier's History Awards for The Australian Wars, Episode 1.
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM published in 2002 was awarded both The Age Book of the Year and non-fiction Prizes, the Courier-Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year.
American Journeys was awarded both The Age Book of the Year non-fiction and Book of the Year awards in 2008.
It also won the 2008 Walkley Book Award.
Death Sentence, his book about the decay of public language, won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year in 2008.
In 2014 The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia was published to critical acclaim for its content and for the beauty and effectiveness of Watson's writing.
It won Book of the Year in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2015.
