Dennis Shanahan is a political editor of The Australian, a newspaper in Australia.
Shanahan has been a journalist at major newspapers for "almost forty years".
[1] He covered NSW politics for the Sydney Morning Herald in the 1980s before joining The Australian.
[1] He is the father of Australian author and columnist Brendan Shanahan.
In 2007, he was criticised by continuing to believe and tell readers that John Howard would win the election.