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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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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In assassination's aftermath, a real political master emerged
Paul Sheehan If this is the time when people sit back and relax and, hopefully, even read, spare a thought for the greatest biography ever written, a commanding work of research, insight and narrative power which...
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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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Labor patronises women and burdens business
Paul Sheehan JULIE COLLINS used to sit in the slot where the government always placed a couple of young women MPs, preferably good-looking, behind the Prime Minister so that they are visible on TV during question...
Would-be leaders preen but the women have the numbers
Paul Sheehan Even though Malcolm Turnbull is being ostentatiously loyal to his leader, he cannot abstain from remarking on the fact that he is very popular without actually saying he is more popular than his...
Parents the X-factor in education rankings
Paul Sheehan To not care about lifting up the poor schools is to not care about the Australian ethos of egalitarianism.
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Gillard treading water as ALP continues its slippery slide
Paul Sheehan The following text message was allegedly sent by Peter Slipper on February 1 to one of his staffers, James Ashby: ''But you're [sic] call and no hard feelings in that you only want businesslike...
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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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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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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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Wild rivers a cage for Aborigines
Paul Sheehan ''With the natives we are hand in glove. They throng the camp every day, and sometimes by their clamour and importunity for bread and meat (of which they now all eat greedily) are become very...
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Obama's healthcare a time bomb
Paul Sheehan As I wrote this column, and as you read it, the United States had reached the climax of the most contentious and sweeping attempt at social engineering in more than 40 years, a process that has...
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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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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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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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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.
