Angela Shanahan

Angela Shanahan has worked as a freelance journalist for many years and has been published in most major Australian newspapers. She is one of the founders of the Thomas More Forum, a forum which has attracted speakers such as former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and current Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. Her husband Dennis Shanahan, with whom she has raised a large family, is currently the chief political editor of The Australian.

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Richard’s remains

8 Feb 2013 |

tags: DNA testing, history, Richard III

Science confirms some physical truths about a medieval English king but leaves his character forever under a cloud.





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Bringing up baby

27 Oct 2011 |

tags: childcare, motherhood, parenting

Why are there more than 900 books on baby care in print in Australia?





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Egypt’s forgotten Copts

1 Apr 2011 |

tags: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Islam, religious freedom

Coptic Christians have been in Egypt for 2,000 years. Why is the Western media ignoring the peril they face?





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Muslim face veils: religious right, or security risk?

6 Feb 2010 |

tags: face veils, France, Muslims

In an opening article on this issue an Australian journalist says veils are a security risk in the West and should be banned in public.





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At least in Oz, universal cover is good sense, not socialism

19 Nov 2009 |

tags: Australia, Obamacare

An Australian journalist explains why her country’s health insurance system leaves Obamacare in the dust.





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Italy, land of earthquakes and elderly nonnas

25 Jul 2009 |

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An Australian journalist sojourning in the L’Aquila region reflects on the quake that has been and the shake-up needed to stop Italians dying out.





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Australia’s marriage gap

26 Apr 2008 |

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It is not middle-class women who are ending up on the shelf but their less educated sisters.





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Australia’s ultimate party animal

24 Jan 2008 |

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What's worse: 500 teenagers trashing your house or an army of bureaucrats trashing your kids?





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Is Dutch tolerance stretching too far?

18 Apr 2006 |

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How will the Netherlands reconcile growing permissiveness with swelling numbers of fundamentalist Muslim migrants?