Gregory Paul Sheridan AO (born 1956) is an Australian foreign affairs journalist, author and commentator.

They lived in a two bedroom flat in the western Sydney suburb of Lewisham, where he attended Christian Brothers' High School.

[2] 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.

[3] In a review of Sheridan's 2015 book God Is Good for You, author Gerard Henderson wrote that "Bob (BAS) Santamaria was one of young Greg's early heroes.

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

[1] According to the book, his journalistic career began after he attended the Australian Union of Students (AUS) annual conference in Melbourne in 1977 with Tony Abbott.

And, oddly enough, a [Vincent] Cronin's biography of Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit who was one of the first Westerners in China.His career in journalism began at The Bulletin in the late 1970s.

[13] 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 Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Peter Costello, Kristina Keneally, Penny Wong, and Bill Shorten.

[9][17] His profile on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q+A program describes him as "one of Australia's most respected and influential analysts of domestic and international politics.

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.

"[1] Britain's Catholic Herald has described Sheridan as "a subtle thinker, a keen observer of the cultural climate and an engaging writer.

But the ledger is vastly in the black, hugely positive ... As a social democrat, [Hawke] hated 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.

[21] In his 1998 book Hidden Agendas, John Pilger criticised Sheridan for being a "reliable ally" of Indonesia's Suharto dictatorship while serving as the foreign editor of The Australian.

[22] In particular, Pilger derided Sheridan's defence of Indonesia after the critique of Suharto's human rights records by the Clinton administration and the Australian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, following the Santa Cruz Massacre in East Timor.

[26][verification needed] Prior to the 2016 US Presidential election, Sheridan consistently predicted that HilLary Clinton would beat Trump.

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

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.

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".

[30] Sheridan called columnist Andrew Bolt "the bravest man in Australia" for speaking out against the wrongful conviction of the Cardinal for sex abuse.

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