Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan is the foreign editor of The Australian and a right-wing commentator on foreign affairs.

Writing on and from the Asian region since the 1980s, Sheridan is an expert on Asian politics, and has written four books on the topic, plus a book on Australia-U.S. relationships.

Sheridan has been a staunch supporter of closer ties between Australia and its Southeast Asian neighbours. 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 that country.

Sheridan is also a supporter of the Australian government's anti-terror legislation and argues the deportation from Australia of American leftist activist Scott Parkin was well founded.^{[citation needed]} He has also argued in support of the notion that George W. Bush will be judged one of the great presidents of the United States.[1]. Consequently he argued in favour of the conservative candidate in the 2008 campaign, John McCain, and turned his disappointment on Barack Obama's victory into a denial of the "Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Phillip Adams" view of the USA [2] . Perhaps his most telling or lasting contribution is in his work explaining Australia's relationship and engagement with, and his deep respect for Asia. His respect for Lee Kuan Yew is recorded in his book Tigers.

In reference to the 2011 Egyptian protests, Sheridan wrote that "What is happening in Egypt and across Arab North Africa more generally represents a distinct new phase in the existential crisis of Arab civilisation."[3]

Bibliography

• (editor and co-author) Living with Dragons: Australia Confronts Its Asian Destiny (Allen & Unwin, 1995; ISBN 1-86373-880-0)
• Tigers: Leaders of the New Asia-Pacific (Allen & Unwin, 1997; ISBN 1-86448-153-6)
• Asian Values, Western Dreams: Understanding the New Asia (Allen & Unwin, 1999; ISBN 1-86448-496-9)
• Cities of the Hot Zone: A Southeast Asian Adventure (Allen & Unwin, 2003; ISBN 1-74114-224-5)
• The Partnership: The Inside Story of the US-Australian Alliance Under Howard and Bush (UNSW Press, 2006; ISBN 0-86840-922-7)

References

• Greg Sheridan, "A great president for these terrible times", The Australian, 14 September 2006
• Greg Sheridan, "New hope for WMD evidence", The Australian, 12 July 2003
• Greg Sheridan and John Kerin, "Deported activist was to teach tactics of violence", The Australian, 22 September 2005

External links

• About Greg Sheridan on The Australian website
• Archive of Sheridan's articles from 29 August 2006 onwards, with reader comments
• Sourcewatch article on Greg Sheridan
• Sheridan interviews United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 15 March 2006