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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Meanwhile, life goes on but mind the speed bumps
Paul Sheehan A law firm sent the following advice to its clients in December, which, in keeping with so much advice from government bureaucracies, local councils and human resource departments, was unnecessary,...
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The camera is capturing the modern narrative
Paul Sheehan When a couple left the theatre two nights ago after seeing the wordless new documentary extravaganza, Samsara, they marvelled at the opening sequences where an aerial camera floated over a city of...
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We cannot slow down and it is at our peril
Paul Sheehan The future is accelerating. It is racing towards us faster than ever in our collective lives. How can that be known, you must ask, given that the future hasn't happened yet.
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In assassination's aftermath, a real political master emerged
Paul Sheehan If this is the time when people sit back and relax and, hopefully, even read, spare a thought for the greatest biography ever written, a commanding work of research, insight and narrative power which...
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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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Divided advocates huff and puff as Labor scorns small business
Paul Sheehan The Punch and Judy Show is not the defining struggle in Australian politics. Something much bigger will decide the next federal election.
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Labor patronises women and burdens business
Paul Sheehan JULIE COLLINS used to sit in the slot where the government always placed a couple of young women MPs, preferably good-looking, behind the Prime Minister so that they are visible on TV during question...
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Rinehart's vision puts the north at the top
Paul Sheehan A long line of people waited patiently in the ballroom of the Four Seasons hotel in Sydney on Thursday night.
Would-be leaders preen but the women have the numbers
Paul Sheehan Even though Malcolm Turnbull is being ostentatiously loyal to his leader, he cannot abstain from remarking on the fact that he is very popular without actually saying he is more popular than his...
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Muddying waters on way to polls
Paul Sheehan It was no doubt keenly noted in the Prime Minister's office that even though Barack Obama enjoyed a decisive 55 per cent to 45 per cent advantage over Mitt Romney in this year's presidential...
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Point schoolies to moral compass
Paul Sheehan Schoolies is the week when a lot of parents put a lot of trust into a lot of teenagers. Everyone knows there is going to be release from the pressures of exams, plus plenty of peer pressure, plus...
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Mutual love of leadership cost Petraeus ultimate prize
Paul Sheehan After Paula Broadwell co-wrote a biography of the most feted American general of the past 50 years, David Petraeus, a telling sentence appeared in her author's profile: ''She spent much of the past...
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Why Seven needs this beauty with the beasts
Paul Sheehan Melbourne Cup day is not a cerebral day. Even so, this year reaffirmed my belief that women, at their best, are superior to men at their best.
Seven, don't let go of this trophy performer
Paul Sheehan MELBOURNE CUP day is not a cerebral day. Even so, this year reaffirmed my belief that women, at their best, are superior to men at the best.
Thoroughbreds v roughies: why women trump men
Paul Sheehan Advice to Channel 7; even at their best, men can't compete with women, writes Paul Sheehan.
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No end in sight in race to trample leaders
Paul Sheehan The Melbourne Cup may be the race that stops the nation but the Blood On the Carpet Leadership Stakes is the race that never ends.
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Jones still has a microphone, and people want him to use it
Paul Sheehan THE public has delivered an extraordinary verdict on the Alan Jones controversy and the attempt to destroy his program via an advertiser boycott.
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Faster news, but mind the quality
Paul Sheehan Tonight journalist Malcolm Brown will feature on the ABC's Australian Story. With Malcolm, you often heard him before you saw him.
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Despite the Arab revolt, women remain shackled to past
Paul Sheehan The camera was still rolling when men began jostling Sonia Dridi, a glamorous television journalist for France 24 news.
