Dennis Shanahan is a political editor of ''

The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet daily newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964. As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of b ...

'', a newspaper in Australia. Shanahan has been a journalist at major newspapers for "almost forty years".Dennis Shanahan
at ''The Australians website. (Retrieved 4 Dec 2012) He covered NSW politics for ''

the Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuous ...

'' in the 1980s before joining ''The Australian''. He led the paper's Canberra Bureau for 10 years before becoming the paper's political editor, a position he has held for 11 years. 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 John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. His eleven-year tenure as prime min ...

would win the election. Howard was beaten by a landslide including his own seat of

Bennelong Woollarawarre Bennelong ( 1764 – 3 January 1813) was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between ...

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