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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Population clock is ticking for O'Farrell
Paul Sheehan If you feel that everyday life in Sydney is increasingly more dense, with more of almost everything, you might consider the population clock kept by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Flying 'roo in danger of becoming roadkill
Paul Sheehan Two weeks ago I sent an email to my contact at China Southern Airlines as part of the daily maintenance of nurturing future column material.
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Game on as Romney picks Fox News champion for his sidekick
Paul Sheehan I admire a man who makes his own sausages, especially if he has hunted the meat himself and used a bow and arrow. No time to be squeamish.
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Obsession with gold not worth the pain
Paul Sheehan The City2Surf is one of the great events of the Sydney calendar but yesterday my personal odyssey in this event turned sour.
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Lining up for some quality time with king of the jungle
Paul Sheehan Susie Anderson is a grown woman, a mother, highly intelligent, with a serious job, a strong will and a great sporting ethic.
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Firestorm set to ignite when power runs out
Paul Sheehan Any subject, even the humble household energy bill, can become interesting if it turns into a horror story. In 2015, the NSW government will face an election. It will also face an energy shock.
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Lessons in world power via the lilting voice of Lucinda the lucid
Paul Sheehan By far the most lucid and entertaining member of the Australian Olympic broadcasting team is not Australian.
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The truth on refugees is worse than fiction
Paul Sheehan The viral email about Australia's generosity to refugees may be wrong in its details, but the truth is a story of government gullibility without end.
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Don't look up to great athletes just because they're on a podium
Paul Sheehan One of the most demanding events at the Olympics is also one of the most neglected - the heptathlon, in which athletes must compete in seven track and field events, from javelin to hurdles.
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Swinging in breeze over the abyss
Paul Sheehan Julia Gillard was rarely to be seen in the byelection campaign for Melbourne, which culminated on Saturday.
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Time to pull plugs from Ten's false reality
Paul Sheehan One of Australia's free-to-air TV networks is pioneering new ways to be seedy, dubious and disingenuous. It is blurring ethical boundaries. It is manipulating the truth.
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Green light for boats is the worst of both worlds
Paul Sheehan A m I naive to be waiting for a minister in the federal government, a government which now has so much blood on its hands, to take responsibility for the policy failure and resign?
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An unlikely TV hit makes us all fools for true love
Paul Sheehan One can only hope that Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, also known as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, also Lord Fellowes, Conservative member of the House of Lords, will eventually relent and allow some...
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And the winner is ... creative advertising
Paul Sheehan The balance of power between the propaganda industry and the news media that are supposed to provide a sceptical counter-balance to commercial and political image-manipulation is shifting in favour...
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Numbers all add up for hero schools
Paul Sheehan Sitting in the parliamentary press gallery in Canberra, waiting with the other vultures for Craig Thomson to make his statement to Parliament on May 21, I was surprised by the venom already being...
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Magnetic polls draw young star from west
Paul Sheehan It is rare for an Australian politician to hold an audience in laughter for more than a few jokes. The first time I ever saw Christian Porter he had a large and savvy crowd in stitches.
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Boats keep coming and the real cost keeps rising
Paul Sheehan The numbers are extraordinary. The failure is breathtaking - a failure in every possible way, of policy, morality, practicality, security, sovereignty, fairness and budgeting.
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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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O'Farrell finally pulls trigger on reform
Paul Sheehan In the language of hunting there are two kinds of shot, the ''sight shot'' and the ''sound shot''. Opportunities are often fleeting, so the sound shot is a reaction to noise only.
