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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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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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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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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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,...
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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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Roddy Meagher, the man who dared to be different
Paul Sheehan In this age of individualism, when everyone can turn their personalities into public personas via the internet, we are discovering that genuine eccentricity is rare.
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Aussie icons now species in danger
Paul Sheehan We are sentimental but no Australian brand is going to survive simply because it is Australian.
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Facebook's new baby is picture perfect
Paul Sheehan The company makes no profits. It has little revenue. It has just 13 employees and they have not yet worked out how to make money from their product, which they give away.
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Qantas keeps its head above water despite Titanic near-miss
Paul Sheehan The Airbus A380 represents the pinnacle of global aviation. It is especially the jewel in the crown in Singapore, where the government-owned Singapore Airlines was the launch customer.
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Dat'll be the day: Saints go marching in to boost battered city
Paul Sheehan ''Who dat?'' This phrase captivated America over the past fortnight, and it featured in a glorious cultural feel-good story yesterday (Sydney time).
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The ABC of seduction: how Mr Darcy depends on damsels
Paul Sheehan The seduction of Annabel Crabb was a civilised affair.
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Willow's whacking: barmy army can't rescue Tests now
Paul Sheehan I am not given to conspiracy theories but am deeply suspicious about the paucity of crowd figures available for Test cricket. Cricket has something to hide.
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Neglect of food sources has the chooks coming home to roost
Paul Sheehan We think the society around us is solid but there is an old political aphorism: the difference between social order and disorder is 36 hours without food.
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Your call is important to us
Paul Sheehan Like most horror stories, this one begins with an everyday setting where the familiar gradually gives way to the sinister.
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Nasty saga you nearly missed
Paul Sheehan News Limited was willing to pay dearly for this story not to be published. It first offered a $110,000 payment, plus a private apology, to avoid going to court.
