Paul Sheehan
Paul Sheehan is a columnist and editorial writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he has has been Day Editor and Washington correspondent. He is the author of two number-one best-sellers, 'Girls Like You' and 'Among The Barbarians' and been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times and numerous anthologies.
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Concussion a concern from elite to schools
Paul Sheehan Greg Williams was the Diesel. He was slow, he was short, not good for an elite Australian Rules player.
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Colourful corporate figure died as he lived, in search of excitement
Paul Sheehan David Coe was an Australian buccaneer. He died on Tuesday as he had lived, adventurously, and though he was only 58, he squeezed at least two full lifetimes into that span. He died with his boots on.
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Punt for power: why college football generates millions
Paul Sheehan During the run by the Sydney Swans to the AFL premiership last year their jaunty team song was heard often, ''Cheer, cheer the red and the white,
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Racial hatred bill offers open slather to obnoxious
Paul Sheehan Researching one book required me to sit in courts for months and go out and interview dozens of people.
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Learn from Asian culture of success
Paul Sheehan Anglo-Celtic men may still dominate the leadership of Australia, but they are relegated to the second rank at this time of year. The relegation is even more pronounced this time.
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Internet giants can earn with ease, it's the churn they must fear
Paul Sheehan Google used to be holy. The company's motto was, and presumably still is, ''Don't be evil''. How about changing it to something more practical, like, ''Don't be irritating''? Google was once a...
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The No.1 advocate of civility hits a warm note
Paul Sheehan On my one visit to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana - the setting for The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels - the atmosphere turned tense soon after I settled down with my then girlfriend for a...
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MasterChef leaves a bitter aftertaste
Paul Sheehan Two million Australian viewers are addicted to MasterChef Australia. Another 4 million watch from time to time. I am one of the addicted.
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Roddy Meagher, the man who dared to be different
Paul Sheehan In this age of individualism, when everyone can turn their personalities into public personas via the internet, we are discovering that genuine eccentricity is rare.
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As the left sides with Muslims, Christians search for support
Paul Sheehan Martin Place is the symbolic centre, the point zero, of Australia's existence as a sophisticated economy. Last Wednesday it looked medieval.
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Floods steal precious topsoil - and future goes down drain
Paul Sheehan Australia reminds me of an injured person, gushing blood. Others gather around, concerned, yet nobody mentions the gushing blood, or appears to even notice.
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Cast adrift from reality, the slick spruikers of 'our' shame
Paul Sheehan The water in Sydney Harbour over the New Year weekend was clear, the sky was bright blue and endless, and the new fashion on the beach was bikini-clad women wearing pork-pie hats. A great look.
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Qantas keeps its head above water despite Titanic near-miss
Paul Sheehan The Airbus A380 represents the pinnacle of global aviation. It is especially the jewel in the crown in Singapore, where the government-owned Singapore Airlines was the launch customer.
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Fast and furious, a league apart
Paul Sheehan On Thursday I received a text from a lawyer friend: ''Number of NRL players to be banned for match-fixing. Player agent also involved. Action is being delayed.
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Civilisation goes west, leaving empire on the edge of ruin
Paul Sheehan When the emails started going out that Niall Ferguson was coming to Australia to deliver a big address in Sydney on Wednesday, tickets to the dinner sold out quickly.
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Explosive argument behind Trad's defamation reasoning
Paul Sheehan The man carrying a legal bomb into courtroom 11A in the NSW Supreme Court building on Friday morning did not look menacing and is not menacing under normal circumstances.
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The ABC of seduction: how Mr Darcy depends on damsels
Paul Sheehan The seduction of Annabel Crabb was a civilised affair.
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Neglect of food sources has the chooks coming home to roost
Paul Sheehan We think the society around us is solid but there is an old political aphorism: the difference between social order and disorder is 36 hours without food.
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Nasty saga you nearly missed
Paul Sheehan News Limited was willing to pay dearly for this story not to be published. It first offered a $110,000 payment, plus a private apology, to avoid going to court.
