Greg Sheridan

CommentaryBiden meeting is PM’s big moment

8:53 AMGreg SheridanScott Morrison sits down with Joe Biden for the first time at the G7 summit. Here’s why it’ll be his most important meeting as PM so far.

commentaryThe Victorian government is world class … at excuses

14:00 PMGreg SheridanCovid has defeated the Victorian government at every turn and will likely do so again, for we are nowhere near clear of the pandemic.

inquirerMother cluster catastrophe that will change history

14:00 PMGreg SheridanThe worst-case scenario is not that Beijing invades Taiwan and the US doesn’t intervene — it’s that the US does intervene and is defeated.

commentaryAn Alzheimer’s delaying thought exercise

14:00 PMGREG SHERIDANHere’s a question for you. What do poor people have, which rich people need and which if you eat it you die?

commentaryAbandoning Kabul shows all that is wrong in West

14:00 PMGreg SheridanYou can tell a political culture is in trouble when its policy alternatives are consistently reduced to the dismal dichotomy between all-in or all-out.

commentaryBiden needs regional fire power

12:00 PMGreg SheridanWe are now a more important US military ally than at any time since World War II. Why? Location! Location! Location!

commentaryHonourable nations do not leave close allies to persecution

11:18 AMGreg SheridanThe Morrison government should commit, unequivocally and straight away, to Australia maintaining a permanent embassy in Afghanistan.

commentaryWorld media mostly got Israel and Gaza wrong

14:00 PMGreg SheridanThe Gaza ceasefire brings no real hope of peace while so many remain intent on Israel’s demise.

commentaryWe are living in the most dangerous country of all

14:00 PMGreg SheridanThree things keep me awake. One is the cultural transformation of Western electoral politics. Another is COVID. And third is the budget.

commentaryRealistic ­Wong clear-eyed on China threat

10:27 AMGreg SheridanPenny Wong made a sustained critique of Beijing’s behaviour and pushed the strong line on China she committed Labor to.

commentaryBlame Biden for return to pre-Trump Gaza

9:38 AMGreg SheridanThe appalling suffering in the Gaza Strip, and in Israel, are at least partly the fault of Joe Biden’s shockingly misguided ­approach to the Middle East.

inquirerEx-Buddhist the great new hope for Christians

14:00 PMGreg SheridanSydney’s new Archbishop confronts a culture which is hostile and a Christianity which is in a kind of slow crisis in Australia.

commentaryThanks but no tanks for our defence, please

14:00 PMGreg SheridanThe money could have been used to buy another squadron or two of Super Hornets and put long-range missiles on them.

inquirerThinking the unthinkable

14:00 PMGreg SheridanAustralians aren’t used to a defence minister like Peter Dutton speaking to us like adults.

commentaryFor China, too much abuse is never enough

11:28 AMGREG SHERIDANBeijing’s decision to end all contacts under the China Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue is the new normal in this now permanently troubled relationship.

commentaryDon’t pick a fight on Darwin port unless we have to

14:00 PMGreg SheridanAllowing the lease was a mistake, but it would be wrong to financially penalise a foreign investor that has broken no laws.

Inquirer‘Dying like fish’: India’s frightening Covid lesson

14:00 PMGreg SheridanWe shouldn’t demonise India. This virus has embarrassed nearly every government in the world and shows Covid still has a long way to run.

commentaryWhy are our public toilets so abysmal?

14:00 PMGreg SheridanIt used to be that you could tell a First World nation from a Third World nation by the state of their public bathrooms. Not any more…

CommentaryPM’s timely plea from the heart

12:14 PMGREG SHERIDANScott Morrison has answered Kevin Rudd’s challenge and told us exactly what the most important consequence of his religious faith are for his politics.

commentaryMandarin right to warn of war risk

14:00 PMGreg SheridanMichael Pezzullo’s comments, which did’t mention China by name, do no more than describe the strategic situation we confront.

CommentarySerious messages based on hard reality

12:30 PMGreg SheridanBeefing up military facilities will give us a better Defence Force. But the main aim is to help the US decentralise its forces in the region.

commentaryIndia’s troubles bad news for us

9:45 AMGREG SHERIDANScott Morrison was right to take hard actions to keep the double mutant strain of COVID-19 ravaging India out of Australia.

inquirerHow 20 years of conflict let China catch up

14:00 PMGreg SheridanThe US operation to kick Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in 1990 showed China the vastness of America’s technological superiority.

CommentaryUS support was our only strategy

12:51 PMGreg SheridanThe Western intervention in Afghanistan has been a strategic failure accompanied by countless tactical successes.

commentaryWe’ll all be feeling Covid hangover for years to come

14:00 PMGreg SheridanLow interest rates, rising property prices and a shortage of places to store retirement capital will all be long-running legacies of the virus.

commentaryAmerica has been tranquilised by a phoney centrist

5:49 AMGreg SheridanThe US President is pushing America much further left than his reassuring, avuncular, woolly image suggests. And on the southern border, it’s having disastrous results.

commentaryMinister proves he has the right stuff

11:21 AMGreg SheridanPeter Dutton is right to assure our troops of the government’s support and to ask them to prioritise their main job.

commentaryDon’t hold your breath for a return to pre-Covid ‘normal’

14:00 PMGreg SheridanWe’re now entering the Godzilla versus King Kong phase of the pandemic: vaccine versus virus.

commentaryPropaganda says much about CCP’s mindset

11:14 AMGREG SHERIDANThe Chinese embassy show was a retro production full of nostalgia for the old Soviet propaganda efforts of the Cold War.

commentaryKia ora to our Kiwi corona cousins

10:27 AMGreg SheridanAnd so it begins. The Great Normalisation, the first move of hope on our international stage. It starts just where it should, with our close family across the ditch.