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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Fiscal civil war needs Honest Al
Paul Sheehan If Lincoln does not win film's triple crown at the Oscars, I will be surprised.
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Our army is at war over the prosecution of commandos
Paul Sheehan Speaking on ABC Radio in 2006, after her appointment as the army's first Director of Military Prosecutions, Lyn McDade, told her interviewer: ''I'm outside the chain of command.''
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Those waging war on society shouldn't have access to its law
Paul Sheehan Wootton Bassett is a model English town. The name is redolent with connotations of village life, farmers' markets, tiled roofs and doughty values.
Odds shorten on PM's little mate
Paul Sheehan The media's obsession with Kevin Rudd may be missing the point. Shorten may be the better bet.
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Overkill in the name of Islam threat
Paul Sheehan On Monday, in Dhaka, I received a friendly rebuke from the Bangladeshi Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, Faruk Khan. I had described Bangladesh as a moderate Muslim nation.
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Meanwhile, life goes on but mind the speed bumps
Paul Sheehan A law firm sent the following advice to its clients in December, which, in keeping with so much advice from government bureaucracies, local councils and human resource departments, was unnecessary,...
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Divided advocates huff and puff as Labor scorns small business
Paul Sheehan The Punch and Judy Show is not the defining struggle in Australian politics. Something much bigger will decide the next federal election.
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Mutual love of leadership cost Petraeus ultimate prize
Paul Sheehan After Paula Broadwell co-wrote a biography of the most feted American general of the past 50 years, David Petraeus, a telling sentence appeared in her author's profile: ''She spent much of the past...
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Despite the Arab revolt, women remain shackled to past
Paul Sheehan The camera was still rolling when men began jostling Sonia Dridi, a glamorous television journalist for France 24 news.
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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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,...
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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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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Brit trick is an insult to the system
Paul Sheehan In recent days John McTernan, the director of communications for the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has indulged a taste for insult. Here are some samples of his writings via the medium of Twitter:
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Reminder of Rudd as Gingrich clings on
Paul Sheehan It is a fascinating time for the politics of selfishness, for seeing public self-absorption and public vendettas taking precedence over party loyalty and personal humility.
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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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Swan's song of praise to be lost amid all the clucking
Paul Sheehan The sound I'm hearing now is the sound of chickens coming home to roost. They are starting to drown out the sound coming from Wayne's World.
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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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Lives lost currying US favour
Paul Sheehan Thomas Dale, 21, killed by a bomb. Grant Kirby, 35, killed by a bomb. Jason Brown, 29, shot dead. Tim Aplin, 38, killed in a helicopter crash. Ben Chuck, 27, killed in a helicopter crash.
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Animosity may contort electors' will
Paul Sheehan The federal election had not even concluded when opinion polls were already informing us what the voters believed should happen to break the deadlock.
