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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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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Fear doesn't need a visa, and it's on tour already
Paul Sheehan Two of the films nominated for best picture in the coming Academy Awards, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, contain warnings, with plenty of creative licence but also plenty of historical accuracy, about...
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Free speech dogged by politics of difference
Paul Sheehan The obvious question is, what are they afraid of? Is it fear of violence, or vandalism, or simply fear of association?
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We cannot slow down and it is at our peril
Paul Sheehan The future is accelerating. It is racing towards us faster than ever in our collective lives. How can that be known, you must ask, given that the future hasn't happened yet.
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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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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.
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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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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...
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Muddying waters on way to polls
Paul Sheehan It was no doubt keenly noted in the Prime Minister's office that even though Barack Obama enjoyed a decisive 55 per cent to 45 per cent advantage over Mitt Romney in this year's presidential...
Seven, don't let go of this trophy performer
Paul Sheehan MELBOURNE CUP day is not a cerebral day. Even so, this year reaffirmed my belief that women, at their best, are superior to men at the best.
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Why Seven needs this beauty with the beasts
Paul Sheehan Melbourne Cup day is not a cerebral day. Even so, this year reaffirmed my belief that women, at their best, are superior to men at their best.
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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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Abbott suffering a Labor Party stoning
Paul Sheehan Tony Abbott is a hack. A dog. An aggressive, carping, bitter, mindless, deceptive, dodgy, mendacious, rancid, negative, nasty, muck-raking, untruthful, obstructionist, opportunistic, sexist,...
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Victimology airbrushes oppression against own
Paul Sheehan The telling moment in court on Tuesday was when supporters of a young Muslim man charged with affray during a demonstration in Sydney on Saturday stayed in their seats when the magistrate entered the...
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Visa insult a betrayal of liberalism
Paul Sheehan The Australian embassy in The Hague, at Carnegielaan 4, is a model of the functional blandness that dominates the Dutch city.
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Rort comes back to bite bottom lines
Paul Sheehan One of the most odious things I've seen from a government agency, real Orwellian double-speak, is in the latest annual report of Waverley Council.
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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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Lessons in world power via the lilting voice of Lucinda the lucid
Paul Sheehan By far the most lucid and entertaining member of the Australian Olympic broadcasting team is not Australian.
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The public has a loud voice and a habit of spotting the fake
Paul Sheehan Many people assume the general public is stupid or gullible or both. Arrogance is dangerous, especially given the wisdom of crowds, the collective ability to spot the fake. We see it all the time.
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Four pillars bashed but holding firm
Paul Sheehan I have never met Gail Kelly and, as the most senior woman business executive in Australia, I can see her value as a role model.
