Tory Shepherd is an opinion writer and

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best known for her contributions to Australian

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media publications and websites, including '' The Advertiser'' and ''

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''. She has also served as Acting Editor for the latter. She has worked as Political Editor at ''The Advertiser,'' as a senior reporter at news.com.au and as a panelist on the ABC TV discussion program, ''Insiders''. She joined News Limited in 2006, starting with a cadetship at ''The Advertiser''. She also appeared in Episode 6 of

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, which aired in 2014. Shepherd has been a panelist at a number of events in the ''Behind the Headlines'' series of public forums, hosted by Paul Willis at

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, and is a member of the Mindframe media advisory group. She has described her main interests as "social justice, religion, and dodgy health treatments."

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