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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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A state's addiction to crime

Paul Sheehan One of the pleasures in public life today will be the Oscars, streamed live from Los Angeles at absurdly self-indulgent length.

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Fear doesn't need a visa, and it's on tour already

Paul Sheehan Two of the films nominated for best picture in the coming Academy Awards, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, contain warnings, with plenty of creative licence but also plenty of historical accuracy, about...

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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Reprehensible portrayal of a murderer as a victim

Paul Sheehan Progressives' views on the Toulouse killer have set new lows in rationalising bigotry.

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It's wrong to make victim of child killer

Paul Sheehan Shares in The New York Times Company have slid from US$25 to US$6.89 (S6.60) during the past four years. The company has stopped making money.

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Clean up of New York's bad apples an inspiration to free-thinkers

Paul Sheehan The lessons from New York have helped form an alliance for reform in Australia which ranges from ''lock 'em up'' conservatives to ''blame society'' progressives.

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Loose lips on sunken ships expose cultural disharmony

Paul Sheehan When most of the 108 members of the federal Coalition gather tomorrow morning for a joint party meeting in Parliament House, they might ask themselves whether they want to be a collective of...

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Cast adrift from reality, the slick spruikers of 'our' shame

Paul Sheehan The water in Sydney Harbour over the New Year weekend was clear, the sky was bright blue and endless, and the new fashion on the beach was bikini-clad women wearing pork-pie hats. A great look.

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Obama deserves his insecurity and the disaster that follows

Paul Sheehan It is called ''La Inseguridad'': The Insecurity. It is the term the Mexicans use to describe the virtual civil war in parts of their country, especially near the United States border, that has cost...

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Beware the words of a wolf dressed in sheikh's clothing

Paul Sheehan On the steps of Sydney Town Hall in the wet dusk of last Tuesday, the former mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly, raised his arms and asked for silence as the crowd chanted anti-Israel...

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