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.
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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Don't blame Gillard, Labor's nadir has been a team effort
Paul Sheehan Whoa. The political storm engulfing Julia Gillard has become hysterical. When the unelected and unaccountable start baying for her blood, the cure is worse than the disease.
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Loose lips on sunken ships expose cultural disharmony
Paul Sheehan When most of the 108 members of the federal Coalition gather tomorrow morning for a joint party meeting in Parliament House, they might ask themselves whether they want to be a collective of...
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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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Plugging away pays off for marathon man
Paul Sheehan 'We were very, very disciplined, there were no outbreaks, we had cohesion, we were contained, everybody stayed on message,'' said Senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells, who won re-election as the head of...
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Gillard's pork pies hard to resist
Paul Sheehan Our Prime Minister is a liar. A serial liar. Brazen. We shall detail some of the more preposterous lies presently but I don't think this will deter the electorate from returning Julia Gillard's...
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In one month, a good woman has become Labor's latest robot
Paul Sheehan On Friday afternoon, June 11, Julia Gillard went to Sydney Airport to catch a flight home to Melbourne. She was travelling alone. No minders, no security.
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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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Too much power to the people
Paul Sheehan John-Paul Langbroek is a Dutch-born dentist from the Gold Coast. He's not exactly a household name, but he might become the next premier of Queensland.
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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.
