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.
Nationals in no rush with a welcome mat for Joyce in NSW
Paul Sheehan OK. A federal election in June. Kevin Rudd against Tony Abbott.
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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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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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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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Far from an outsider or innocent
Paul Sheehan There were six people in the room. Morris Iemma was there with his top advisers to meet Rob Oakeshott and his key staffer. It was 2007; Iemma was premier of NSW, Oakeshott was an independent state MP.
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Border security shemozzle proves Gillard unfit to govern
Paul Sheehan After Federal Parliament returns next Monday, there are sufficient grounds for the opposition to move the first no-confidence motion in the Gillard government.
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A diminished Gillard caught in a storm of her own making
Paul Sheehan The most surprising aspect of Julia Gillard's first day of facing parliamentary questioning as the newly elected Prime Minister was her demeanour.
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Faceless Libs should step aside
Paul Sheehan There could be blood. There doesn't have to be. It could be an elegant, seamless change of power, but eventually blood will flow if seamless change does not happen inside the NSW Liberal Party.
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In bed with the devil - a deal that has tainted Green politics
Paul Sheehan The word ''green'' has a powerful meaning in our public life in a way it never did before. It has connotations of habitat, nature, trees, wilderness and also moral connotations - stewardship of the...
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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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Power is the reason for this fight
Paul Sheehan Ian Widdup is dying - he has advanced leukaemia - and for some people he cannot die soon enough. The NSW government, the construction group Multiplex, and the building union the CFMEU, would all be...
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Independents' support for Labor would betray rural folk
Paul Sheehan These men have been given no mandate whatsoever to form a government with the party their electorates so comprehensively dismissed.
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Civilisation goes west, leaving empire on the edge of ruin
Paul Sheehan When the emails started going out that Niall Ferguson was coming to Australia to deliver a big address in Sydney on Wednesday, tickets to the dinner sold out quickly.
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Batten down the hatches, the waters are still treacherous
Paul Sheehan The ominous word ''boom'' appeared last week, in large type, on the front page of the local newspaper. Given the nature of this paper, the word could only refer to one thing: property.
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Life's a bitumen nightmare as cities get hotter than hell
Paul Sheehan We cooked on Friday. In between the deluges. Walking to the office across the breezeway at Darling Harbour - except there was no breeze - I overheard a young women say to her friend, ''It's supposed...
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Shock loss in Massachusetts ends Obama euphoria
Paul Sheehan At 9.20 pm today, in Massachusetts, or 1.20 pm on the Australian east coast, the era of Obamamania abruptly ended.
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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.
