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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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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Race up the rankings is really a class issue
Paul Sheehan A teacher I know recently asked her schoolchildren a question we often ask each other without really caring about the answer: ''Did you enjoy the weekend?''
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Flying 'roo in danger of becoming roadkill
Paul Sheehan Two weeks ago I sent an email to my contact at China Southern Airlines as part of the daily maintenance of nurturing future column material.
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Obsession with gold not worth the pain
Paul Sheehan The City2Surf is one of the great events of the Sydney calendar but yesterday my personal odyssey in this event turned sour.
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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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Roddy Meagher, the man who dared to be different
Paul Sheehan In this age of individualism, when everyone can turn their personalities into public personas via the internet, we are discovering that genuine eccentricity is rare.
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Aussie icons now species in danger
Paul Sheehan We are sentimental but no Australian brand is going to survive simply because it is Australian.
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iCash flow: Apple aims for a trillion and history
Paul Sheehan It is slender and seductive. It has helped create a company larger than we have ever seen before. It is an itch that millions of people did not know they needed to scratch.
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Billionaire bashing: the new class war
Paul Sheehan So great was demand for a piece of the Mega Millions action last week that people waited in lines to buy lottery tickets.
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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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Biting the boom that feeds us
Paul Sheehan Twenty-five years ago the rainfall in Perth began to plunge. Last year it almost disappeared. The statistics of the decline are spectacular and unnerving.
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Next shock will be high food prices
Paul Sheehan You will pay for all this water. Unless you are insulated from the normal costs of living, you can expect sticker shock at some point this year, or next, when paying for the weekly food shopping.
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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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Green by name, flaky by nature
Paul Sheehan Adam Bandt's first major policy initiative as the only member of the Greens in the House of Representatives was always going to be loaded with symbolism.
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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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Less can be more, for people, pensions and government
Paul Sheehan Australia emerged from the global financial crisis as the second wealthiest large economy in the world.
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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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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.
