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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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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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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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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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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Next shock will be high food prices
Paul Sheehan You will pay for all this water. Unless you are insulated from the normal costs of living, you can expect sticker shock at some point this year, or next, when paying for the weekly food shopping.
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Let's vote Kevin off the island
Paul Sheehan In the bible of bile, otherwise known as The Latham Diaries (2005), the former leader of the Labor Party Mark Latham reserved a special place of disdain for Kevin Rudd.
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Get your fracking facts right
Paul Sheehan Frack is not a pleasant word. Nor a popular one. It has obvious negative connotations. Even the spelling is contested. The industry that invented and uses the term prefers the spelling ''fracc''.
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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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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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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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Australia's population fairytale
Paul Sheehan Today Australia's population is 21,995,000. Because it is increasing by more than a thousand people a day, we will reach the 22 million threshold on Friday. Maybe even Thursday night.
