Greg Sheridan
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Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of The Australian, one of Australia's only national newspapers, and one of its columnists. The Australian is the flagship Australian paper of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire.
Writing on the region since the 1980's, Sheridan is an Asia specialist, and has written four books on the region (listed in his employee profile linked to below). Sheridan is a Catholic and is considered to be a right-wing commentator, although his positions vary from any particular party.
Sheridan has a staunch supporter of closer ties between Australia and its Southeast Asian neighbours, particularly Indonesia, defending the Suharto regime over criticisms of its human rights record, and its occupation of East Timor [link]. He was a vocal critic of Prime Minister John Howard's intervention in East Timor in 1999, and during 2006 called for the removal of Mari Alkatiri as Prime Minister of the country.
Sheridan is also a supporter of the government's anti-terror legislation, and insists the deportation of American peace activist Scott Parkin was well founded [link].
Sheridan often criticises [academics] and [journalists] he sees as being biased and/or politically left-wing, although his own views are often under attack.
References
- Greg Sheridan and John Kerin, "Deported activist was to teach tactics of violence", The Australian, September 22, 2005
- Greg Sheridan, "New hope for WMD evidence", The Australian, July 12, 2003.
External links
- [About Greg Sheridan] on The Australian website
- [Sourcewatch article] on Greg Sheridan
- [Getting the Story Straight: Greg Sheridan in the Shifting Moral Sands of Iraq] (PDF file ~93kb) criticism by Hirst, Martin and Schutze, Robert
- [Greg Sheridan goes way over the top] criticism from Crikey
- [Greg Sheridan's lame defence] criticism from Crikey
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