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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Rich vitriol shrouds budget extravagance
Paul Sheehan I preferred Robotic Julia. Now we have Furious Julia. Is there no middle course for the Prime Minister? Are we now seeing the cumulative strain of the cost of attaining power and maintaining a...
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Roxon's calls on Slipper's crudities show questionable judgment
Paul Sheehan Test: how long does it take to deduce whether the following text messages are sexual and in poor taste?
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Abbott suffering a Labor Party stoning
Paul Sheehan Tony Abbott is a hack. A dog. An aggressive, carping, bitter, mindless, deceptive, dodgy, mendacious, rancid, negative, nasty, muck-raking, untruthful, obstructionist, opportunistic, sexist,...
Comments directed at Tony Abbott
Paul Sheehan The following comments were selected from hundreds drawn predominantly from Hansard but also other published records.
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Unmasking the real driver of the politics of personal abuse
Paul Sheehan The dictionary defines misogyny as ''hatred of women''. It is an ugly word, an ugly accusation and an ugly fact of life.
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Gillard reveals true nature in playing gender card
Paul Sheehan The dictionary defines misogyny as "hatred of women". It is an ugly word, an ugly accusation and an ugly fact of life.
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Abuse is Treasurer's stock in trade
Paul Sheehan One member of the federal cabinet is the Member for Gutter. Another is the Member for Sewer. One resides permanently in the gutter, the other resides permanently in the sewer.
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One man's rebuke is another's lynch mob
Paul Sheehan Tony Robertson is clearly excited. It is evident in his breathless updates that he has been infected by the thrill of the chase.
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Bowen's gob-smacking gall on Wilders visa
Paul Sheehan On Monday afternoon, local time, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders used Twitter to announce he had cancelled his trip to Australia. He wrote (translated from Dutch): "Still no Australian visa.
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Visa insult a betrayal of liberalism
Paul Sheehan The Australian embassy in The Hague, at Carnegielaan 4, is a model of the functional blandness that dominates the Dutch city.
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Welcome to Cesspit, another town sucked into the political machine
Paul Sheehan This story concerns events involving the town of Cessnock, though for the purposes of this column it could be called Cesspit.
Lid lifted on NSW black box
Paul Sheehan Last month Tony Abbott was given a blunt warning, by phone, from a senior member of the Liberal Party.
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Victimology airbrushes oppression against own
Paul Sheehan The telling moment in court on Tuesday was when supporters of a young Muslim man charged with affray during a demonstration in Sydney on Saturday stayed in their seats when the magistrate entered the...
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The anti-Muslim MP not allowed to visit Australia
Paul Sheehan My hands are tied. This, in essence, is the response that Chris Bowen, the Minister for Immigration, has given to questions in Parliament this week about why he granted a visa to an Islamic...
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Rort comes back to bite bottom lines
Paul Sheehan One of the most odious things I've seen from a government agency, real Orwellian double-speak, is in the latest annual report of Waverley Council.
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Greens stay silent after abject elections
Paul Sheehan It was surprising how little was made about the meltdown in the Greens vote in statewide local elections held in NSW over the weekend.
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Singapore left at altar as Qantas bounds off
Paul Sheehan In Singapore last week, I stayed near the venerable Raffles Hotel. Not at the Raffles Hotel, with its rooms starting at $540 a night when I checked. I popped into the famous Long Bar for a nightcap.
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Race up the rankings is really a class issue
Paul Sheehan A teacher I know recently asked her schoolchildren a question we often ask each other without really caring about the answer: ''Did you enjoy the weekend?''
Computer panic: why you should take stock
Paul Sheehan Once I was an active capitalist. I even traded stock. I bought, I sold, I researched, I tried to turn my savings into investments. I was naive.
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Union's best-laid plans may come back to bite it - and PM
Paul Sheehan When a group of construction workers held a rally outside the Melbourne headquarters of the building industry watchdog on a winter's day in 2010, they were addressed by a union official, John Setka,...
