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Gregory Paul Sheridan (born 1956) is an Australian
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, author and commentator. He has written a number of books on politics, religion and international affairs and has been the foreign editor of ''
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'' newspaper since 1992. He is a regular commentator on Australian television and radio, including for the
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and
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. The ABC describes Sheridan as "one of Australia's most respected and influential analysts of domestic and international politics."


Early life and education

Sheridan was born in Sydney in 1956 and grew up in a lower middle class Irish-Catholic family. They lived in a two bedroom flat in the western Sydney suburb of
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, where he attended Christian Brothers' High School. The family later moved to Forestville on Sydney's North Shore. At 15, Greg convinced his parents to allow him to go to the
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seminary at Galong in southern New South Wales to train as a priest; however, he only lasted a year at the institution and completed his high schooling at the Christian Brothers school St Pius X College at Chatswood in Sydney."Memories of Us – review of ''When We Were Young & Foolish''"
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, The Sydney Institute, 26 October 2015
According to friend and academic Karl Schmude, Sheridan's early family life and university experiences gave him a grounding in politics, which steered him towards journalism."Can God Return from Exile? Review of ''God Is Good for You''"
by Karl Schmude, '' Quadrant'', 10 March 2019
In a review of Sheridan's 2015 book ''God Is Good for You'', author
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wrote that " Bob (BAS) Santamaria was one of young Greg's early heroes. Along with United States president J F Kennedy. In 1963, he became interested in politics. Every Sunday, the family tuned into BAS's ''Point of View'' commentary program on Channel 9. And 1963 was the year of the Kennedy assassination. Half a century later, Sheridan's politics have not changed much. Like Kennedy and Santamaria, he is an anti-communist and a
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. Sheridan is also a
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and was slow to embrace
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economics." He sporadically attended
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and the
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over several years, but never graduated, finding it difficult to deal with lecturers with whom he disagreed. While pursuing his university education, he became involved in
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. During this time, he befriended the future
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prime minister
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."Profile: Greg Sheridan"
'' Q+A'', ABC
Sheridan and Abbott involved themselves in the opposition to the
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university politics of the 1970s, usually through involvement in the campus Democratic Club, which received support from Santamaria's
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. Sheridan also served for a time as senior vice-president of the
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, supporting Abbott standing for the
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. Sheridan's 2015 book ''When We Were Young & Foolish'' covers his university politics years. According to the book, his journalistic career began after he attended the
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(AUS) annual conference in Melbourne in 1977 with Tony Abbott. Of the experience, he wrote: "Everything about the conference, and about AUS and student politics in those days, was undemocratic and full of intimidation ... All the violence in student politics, all of it, came from the left." He recounted leftist and anarchist attacks on
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and
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and Tony Abbott, and wrote that, after Abbott and the female member of their group were assaulted by leftists during the AUS conference, Sheridan and Abbott sought counsel from the influential lay Catholic Bob Santamaria for the first time. After the conference, Sheridan wrote an article about the violence which was published in '' The Bulletin'': "Whatever merit or otherwise my journalistic career may have had over the next 40 years, perhaps I owe it all to AUS", he wrote in ''When We Were Young & Foolish''. Sheridan later wrote some articles on the sciences academic conflict at
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. After leaving university, Sheridan became an industrial organiser for a trade union and joined the
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.


Career

Sheridan was drawn to being a writer during his
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years, at which time he had several articles published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine and elsewhere. He later said that he was drawn to journalism by "a love of words and language, a love of controversy and intellectual debate, a desire to 'use my gunpowder' and make a difference.""How a veteran reporter became Australia's defender of the faith"
''
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''; 6 June 2019
His career in journalism began at ''The Bulletin'' in the late 1970s. Covering the story of
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after the
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sparked an interest in Asian and regional politics. Sheridan later wrote of his time at ''The Bulletin'': "It was astonishing good fortune for me to know all these people at ''The Bulletin''.
Trevor Kennedy Trevor Kennedy (born Trevor John Kennedy; born in Perth, Western Australia, on 24 June 1942; died November 2021) was an Australian businessman and company director. He served on the board of directors of many Australian companies, including Conso ...
,
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, Alan Reid,
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,
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and the rest. It was a scintillating magazine under Trevor Kennedy's editorship." Sheridan joined the staff of ''
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'' and in 1985 became that newspaper's first China correspondent. He later worked in Washington and Canberra before returning to Sydney as the newspaper's foreign editor in 1992. He specialises in
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and U.S. politics for ''The Australian'' and has interviewed presidents and prime ministers around the world. He is a distinguished
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of the Australia India Institute at the
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. He has written four books on Asian politics, a book on Australia–U.S. relationships, as well as books on religion. Since 2017, Sheridan has published books and articles on Christianity, beginning with an article in ''The Australian'' entitled "Is God dead?", subtitled "The West has much to lose by banishing Christianity". Sheridan told the ''
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'' that the article "got the biggest readership of any article in the history of the paper since they've been able to measure these things". The following year, he published the book ''God Is Good for You: A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times'', which argued that "God is true", and discusses the faith of high profile Australian politicians including
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. The book became a bestseller.


Personal life

Sheridan is a Catholic, and has written two books on Christianity. According to Karl Schmude writing for '' Quadrant'', "Sheridan is more than a cultural Catholic. He actually believes; and he is deeply conscious of the springs of conviction that lie beneath a higher faith." He is married to Jasbir Kaur "Jessie" Sheridan, who practises the
Sikh religion Sikhism (), also known as Sikhi ( pa, ਸਿੱਖੀ ', , from pa, ਸਿੱਖ, lit=disciple', 'seeker', or 'learner, translit=Sikh, label=none),''Sikhism'' (commonly known as ''Sikhī'') originated from the word ''Sikh'', which comes fro ...
along with their three sons. He moved to Melbourne in 2006.


Honours, reviews and recognition

Sheridan was given an
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Honour in 2016, with the citation, "For distinguished service to print media as a journalist and political commentator on foreign affairs and national security, and to Australia's bilateral relationships". His profile on the
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's Q+A program describes him as "one of Australia's most respected and influential analysts of domestic and international politics. He has written several books on Asia and Australia's role in the region. He is also a keen observer of US international affairs and is on close terms with senior figures in Washington, London and other major foreign capitals." Britain's ''
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'' has described Sheridan as "a subtle thinker, a keen observer of the cultural climate and an engaging writer.


Commentary

Sheridan has written extensively on Australian, Asian and international politics, and is a regular commentator on Australian TV and radio.


Whitlam Government

Sheridan has written that the Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975) was "overall perhaps the worst government in Australian history", with government expenditure running "wildly out of control"."Enter stage right, exit far left after a capricious performance"
''The Australian'', 20 March 2015


Fraser Government

Sheridan's career in journalism began during the Fraser government years. Sheridan was later critical of what he alleged was
Malcolm Fraser John Malcolm Fraser (; 21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Fraser was raised on hi ...
's political transformation to the left after leaving office, his embrace of
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and what Sheridan describes as the "myth-making of the legions of new admirers Fraser gained when he abruptly shifted from being a rightwinger to being a leftwinger." When Fraser died in 2015, Sheridan offered this general assessment:


Hawke Government

Following the death of Fraser's successor Bob Hawke in 2019, Sheridan wrote that "In foreign affairs and national security, Bob Hawke was a magnificently successful prime minister. He wasn't perfect. He made mistakes. But the ledger is vastly in the black, hugely positive ... As a social democrat, awkehated dictatorship and knew that in the Cold War he was on the side of the US-led alliance of which Australia was an integral part."


Other issues

Sheridan has been a supporter of closer ties between Australia and its Southeast Asian neighbours, particularly Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. In his 1998 book ''Hidden Agendas'',
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criticised Sheridan for being a "reliable ally" of Indonesia's
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dictatorship while serving as the foreign editor of ''The Australian''. In particular, Pilger derided Sheridan's defence of Indonesia after the critique of Suharto's human rights records by the
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and the Australian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, following the
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in East Timor. Sheridan said that "even genuine victims frequently concoct stories." In 2006, Sheridan called for the removal by Australia of
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as Prime Minister of
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. Sheridan supported the Australian government's
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. He also argued in 2006 that
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will be judged "one of the great presidents of the United States". In 2019 Sheridan visited Poland and Hungary, paid for by the Polish government and a conservative think-tank, the
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. He wrote articles praising the Polish and Hungarian governments. In June 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests, Sheridan commented on
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that there was no systemic racism in US. "Most African Americans are middle class, and they don't suffer daily, shocking racism", Sheridan said. "I myself have lived in the United States on four separate occasions. And I never saw any racial confrontation. I never heard anyone make a racist remark." Sheridan has criticised the
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. In one column he wrote "the ABC has become a relentless behemoth of unaccountable and vindictive power that persecutes designated enemies in a grievously unfair and unprofessional way" which practices "an irresponsible, vicious, bullying misuse of state power."


ABC bias

Sheridan is a regular panellist on
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television and radio, however he has at times criticised the national broadcaster for bias. Sheridan was highly critical of the ABC's antagonistic reporting of the case against Catholic Cardinal
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, who was acquitted by the full bench of the
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in April 2020. Sheridan wrote for ''The Australian'': "the ABC has become a relentless behemoth of unaccountable and vindictive power that persecutes designated enemies in a grievously unfair and unprofessional way. Its campaigns against its enemies have a whiff of the
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in China's
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." Sheridan also criticised Victorian Labor Premier
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for refusing to accept the High Court verdict, writing that he saw the Premier's comments as the "most irresponsible remarks made by a modern premier. In more than 40 years of journalism, I can recall no premier making remarks that could be interpreted as challenging the High Court in a criminal matter". Sheridan called columnist
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"the bravest man in Australia" for speaking out against the wrongful conviction of the Cardinal for sex abuse.


Books

* (editor and co-author) ''Living with Dragons: Australia Confronts Its Asian Destiny'' (Allen & Unwin, 1995; ) *''Tigers: Leaders of the New Asia-Pacific'' (Allen & Unwin, 1997; ) *''Asian Values, Western Dreams: Understanding the New Asia'' (Allen & Unwin, 1999; ) *''Cities of the Hot Zone: A Southeast Asian Adventure'' (Allen & Unwin, 2003; ) *''The Partnership: The Inside Story of the US-Australian Alliance Under Howard and Bush'' (
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, 2006; ) * ''When We Were Young & Foolish: A Memoir of My Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd & Other Reprobates'' (Allen & Unwin, 2015; ) *
God Is Good for You: A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times
' (Allen & Unwin, 2018; ) *
Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World
' (Allen & Unwin, 2021, )


References


External links


Greg Sheridan – Author at ''The Australian''

Archive
of Sheridan's articles for ''The Australian'', 29 August 2006 – 5 September 2007

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