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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Action hero challenge for schools
Paul Sheehan One rationalisation offered for the anti-Labor landslide in Queensland was that many men in the deep north did not like having a woman as premier.
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iCash flow: Apple aims for a trillion and history
Paul Sheehan It is slender and seductive. It has helped create a company larger than we have ever seen before. It is an itch that millions of people did not know they needed to scratch.
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The X factor that adds up to schooling success
Paul Sheehan Randwick Boys High and Randwick Girls High are separated by a wide divide in academic performance.
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Reminder of Rudd as Gingrich clings on
Paul Sheehan It is a fascinating time for the politics of selfishness, for seeing public self-absorption and public vendettas taking precedence over party loyalty and personal humility.
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Aussie icons now species in danger
Paul Sheehan We are sentimental but no Australian brand is going to survive simply because it is Australian.
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Woman in the wooden mask remains unable to break from type
Paul Sheehan The recurring mystery of Australian politics is why the first woman Prime Minister in our history, who has shown a quick wit in Parliament, warmth when dealing with the public face-to-face, and...
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Ruckus puts referendum out of reach
Paul Sheehan At least the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra has finally achieved one constructive thing in its 40 years as a moral eyesore: it helped kill off the proposed amendment to enshrine racial...
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US shows why elections should be a sprint, not a marathon
Paul Sheehan Australians should feel a sense of gratitude when they absorb the political news from Iowa, the official start of the 2012 presidential marathon.
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Four pillars bashed but holding firm
Paul Sheehan I have never met Gail Kelly and, as the most senior woman business executive in Australia, I can see her value as a role model.
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Loyalty no longer its own reward
Paul Sheehan Almost a year ago I flew Qantas internationally. Mistake. The aircraft was old, the entertainment system completely non-functional, and the steward in my section was perfunctory (the adventure had...
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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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Boxer and union giant slug it out in the great demolition derby
Paul Sheehan It has taken 15 years to reach the moment of climax, when two bruisers, each committed to the destruction of the other, finally confront each other in the NSW Supreme Court.
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Repressing women is sharia's raison d'etre
Paul Sheehan Four is the number at the heart of the violent counter-reformation that confronts our Western values. Four is the number of wives the Koran says a man may have. No such latitude is afforded to women.
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It's time to rage against the Liberal machine
Paul Sheehan Tomorrow, for the first time in 16 years, a Liberal Premier will lead the government benches in the NSW Legislative Assembly.
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One small word, one giant leap for NSW
Paul Sheehan I voted for Clover Moore. I marked Clover ''1'' on my ballot paper even though in many ways my local member stands for the micro-managing, grimly earnest, nanny-state, tax-guzzling policies that I...
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A state's addiction to crime
Paul Sheehan One of the pleasures in public life today will be the Oscars, streamed live from Los Angeles at absurdly self-indulgent length.
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Loose lips on sunken ships expose cultural disharmony
Paul Sheehan When most of the 108 members of the federal Coalition gather tomorrow morning for a joint party meeting in Parliament House, they might ask themselves whether they want to be a collective of...
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Border security shemozzle proves Gillard unfit to govern
Paul Sheehan After Federal Parliament returns next Monday, there are sufficient grounds for the opposition to move the first no-confidence motion in the Gillard government.
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We don't need another pharaoh after Mubarak's 30-year reign
Paul Sheehan As we hope for the Egyptians who have mobilised peacefully against their political and economic suffocation, we must not overlook the Egyptian army officer Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli.
