33 Facts About Greg Sheridan

Gregory Paul Sheridan was born on 1956 and is an Australian foreign affairs journalist, author and commentator.

Greg Sheridan has written a number of books on politics, religion and international affairs and has been the foreign editor of The Australian newspaper since 1992.

Greg Sheridan is a regular commentator on Australian television and radio, including for the ABC and Sky News Australia.

Greg Sheridan was born in Sydney in 1956 and grew up in a lower middle class Irish-Catholic family.

At 15, Greg Sheridan convinced his parents to allow him to go to the Redemptorist 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.

Half a century later, Greg Sheridan's politics have not changed much.

Greg Sheridan is a social conservative and was slow to embrace free market economics.

Greg Sheridan sporadically attended Macquarie University and the University of Sydney over several years, but never graduated, finding it difficult to deal with lecturers with whom he disagreed.

Greg Sheridan served for a time as senior vice-president of the Sydney University Liberal Club, supporting Abbott standing for the students' representative council.

Greg Sheridan later wrote some articles on the sciences academic conflict at Macquarie University.

Greg Sheridan was drawn to being a writer during his Sydney University years, at which time he had several articles published in The Bulletin magazine and elsewhere.

Greg Sheridan joined the staff of The Australian and in 1985 became that newspaper's first China correspondent.

Greg Sheridan later worked in Washington and Canberra before returning to Sydney as the newspaper's foreign editor in 1992.

Greg Sheridan is a distinguished fellow of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne.

Greg Sheridan told the Catholic Herald 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".

Greg Sheridan is a Catholic, and has written two books on Christianity.

Greg Sheridan actually believes; and he is deeply conscious of the springs of conviction that lie beneath a higher faith.

Greg Sheridan was given an Officer of the Order of Australia 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".

Greg Sheridan has written several books on Asia and Australia's role in the region.

Greg Sheridan is a keen observer of US international affairs and is on close terms with senior figures in Washington, London and other major foreign capitals.

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

Greg Sheridan has written that the Whitlam Labor Government was "overall perhaps the worst government in Australian history", with government expenditure running "wildly out of control".

Greg Sheridan ended the shambles and crisis that the Whitlam government, overall perhaps the worst government in Australian history, had produced.

Greg Sheridan seriously curtailed the growth of government expenditure, which had run wildly out of control under Whitlam.

Greg Sheridan instituted the Campbell inquiry, which laid out the path of financial reform, although he was too timid to follow this path and its implementation was largely left to the Hawke government.

Greg Sheridan has been a supporter of closer ties between Australia and its Southeast Asian neighbours, particularly Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

In 2006, Greg Sheridan called for the removal by Australia of Mari Alkatiri as Prime Minister of East Timor.

Greg Sheridan argued in 2006 that George W Bush will be judged "one of the great presidents of the United States".

In June 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests, Greg Sheridan commented on Sky News Australia that there was no systemic racism in US.

Greg Sheridan is a regular panellist on ABC television and radio, however he has at times criticised the national broadcaster for bias.

Greg Sheridan was highly critical of the ABC's antagonistic reporting of the case against Catholic Cardinal George Pell, who was acquitted by the full bench of the High Court of Australia in April 2020.

In 2019 Greg Sheridan visited Poland and Hungary, paid for by the Polish government and a conservative think-tank, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

Greg Sheridan wrote articles praising the Polish and Hungarian governments.