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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Life's a bitumen nightmare as cities get hotter than hell
Paul Sheehan We cooked on Friday. In between the deluges. Walking to the office across the breezeway at Darling Harbour - except there was no breeze - I overheard a young women say to her friend, ''It's supposed...
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Dat'll be the day: Saints go marching in to boost battered city
Paul Sheehan ''Who dat?'' This phrase captivated America over the past fortnight, and it featured in a glorious cultural feel-good story yesterday (Sydney time).
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The clowns are running this circus
Paul Sheehan Last Wednesday, the House of Commons was shot full of adrenalin when the weekly prime minister's questions began.
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Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics
Paul Sheehan Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day.
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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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Runaway Republican truck wreaks havoc
Paul Sheehan ''You can't stop the truck! You can't stop the truck!'' The chant went up in Boston as several thousand people gathered to celebrate the end of Barack Obama's political supremacy.
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Shock loss in Massachusetts ends Obama euphoria
Paul Sheehan At 9.20 pm today, in Massachusetts, or 1.20 pm on the Australian east coast, the era of Obamamania abruptly ended.
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Fox adds a brunette to blonde weaponry against the President
Paul Sheehan There are so many blonde women on the Fox News Channel that I ploughed through the channel's website to get the exact number. Thirty-five.
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Those waging war on society shouldn't have access to its law
Paul Sheehan Wootton Bassett is a model English town. The name is redolent with connotations of village life, farmers' markets, tiled roofs and doughty values.
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Willow's whacking: barmy army can't rescue Tests now
Paul Sheehan I am not given to conspiracy theories but am deeply suspicious about the paucity of crowd figures available for Test cricket. Cricket has something to hide.
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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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Rudd's green credentials a lot of hot air
Paul Sheehan Kevin Rudd, frenetic in Copenhagen, would have us believe he is an environmental statesman. He is certainly trying. But he risks appearing to be an environmental blowhard.
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Too much power to the people
Paul Sheehan John-Paul Langbroek is a Dutch-born dentist from the Gold Coast. He's not exactly a household name, but he might become the next premier of Queensland.
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Copenhagen backlash hits a government in denial
Paul Sheehan When Julia Gillard faced the media outside Federal Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday she looked shell-shocked.
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The Liberal base had already voted
Paul Sheehan When the 83 federal Liberals gathered in their party room in Parliament House at 9am yesterday the room was packed with a pressing crowd.
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Malcolm and the mincer
Paul Sheehan I have been waiting for this civil war since August 12, the night I went to dinner at the Cape Cod restaurant in Canberra.
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Nothing wrong with Libs disunity on climate change
Paul Sheehan As I write this, the atmosphere in the Canberra press gallery is akin to a mood of collective sexual arousal. Blood, chaos, betrayal and division.
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Your call is important to us
Paul Sheehan Like most horror stories, this one begins with an everyday setting where the familiar gradually gives way to the sinister.
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One giant scar on mankind
Paul Sheehan Almost 20 years ago, on December 6, 1989, a young man went looking for women at l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
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Common sense has no place in our burgeoning bureaucracy
Paul Sheehan A group of altruistic young mothers has organised a school fete for next Sunday. They want to raise money to pay the salary of a remedial reading teacher at their state primary school.
