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.
Media call just a piddling distraction
Paul Sheehan What follows is a quote from a column I wrote about Stephen Conroy, which enraged him.
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Thomson caught in the political spin cycle
Paul Sheehan When Craig Thomson rose to speak in Parliament for the first time, on February 19, 2008, within 90 seconds he thanked three key Labor machinists: Mark Arbib, Karl Bitar and Sam Dastyari.
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Racial hatred bill offers open slather to obnoxious
Paul Sheehan Researching one book required me to sit in courts for months and go out and interview dozens of people.
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...
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No end in sight in race to trample leaders
Paul Sheehan The Melbourne Cup may be the race that stops the nation but the Blood On the Carpet Leadership Stakes is the race that never ends.
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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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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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Welcome to Cesspit, another town sucked into the political machine
Paul Sheehan This story concerns events involving the town of Cessnock, though for the purposes of this column it could be called Cesspit.
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Secrets and lies - how Labor has been digging its own grave
Paul Sheehan Enough about prostitutes. Enough about Craig Thomson's antics. What we haven't heard are the big questions on the big issue that is taking the Gillard government into a death spiral, even as it...
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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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Let's vote Kevin off the island
Paul Sheehan In the bible of bile, otherwise known as The Latham Diaries (2005), the former leader of the Labor Party Mark Latham reserved a special place of disdain for Kevin Rudd.
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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.
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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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Disunited kingdom is flagging
Paul Sheehan One of the politicians charged with reducing Britain's debt mountain has, with the task barely begun, been exposed of milking the system of tens of thousands of pounds and paying it to his boyfriend.
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The clowns are running this circus
Paul Sheehan Last Wednesday, the House of Commons was shot full of adrenalin when the weekly prime minister's questions began.
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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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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.
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Grandstanding Green in the coward's castle
Paul Sheehan If you'd like an example of how parliament can be used as a coward's castle, how some politicians believe they have licence to behave like a kangaroo court, then consider the contribution yesterday...
