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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Mutual love of leadership cost Petraeus ultimate prize
Paul Sheehan After Paula Broadwell co-wrote a biography of the most feted American general of the past 50 years, David Petraeus, a telling sentence appeared in her author's profile: ''She spent much of the past...
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Rich vitriol shrouds budget extravagance
Paul Sheehan I preferred Robotic Julia. Now we have Furious Julia. Is there no middle course for the Prime Minister? Are we now seeing the cumulative strain of the cost of attaining power and maintaining a...
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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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Population clock is ticking for O'Farrell
Paul Sheehan If you feel that everyday life in Sydney is increasingly more dense, with more of almost everything, you might consider the population clock kept by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Computer panic: why you should take stock
Paul Sheehan Once I was an active capitalist. I even traded stock. I bought, I sold, I researched, I tried to turn my savings into investments. I was naive.
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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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Don't look up to great athletes just because they're on a podium
Paul Sheehan One of the most demanding events at the Olympics is also one of the most neglected - the heptathlon, in which athletes must compete in seven track and field events, from javelin to hurdles.
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Magnetic polls draw young star from west
Paul Sheehan It is rare for an Australian politician to hold an audience in laughter for more than a few jokes. The first time I ever saw Christian Porter he had a large and savvy crowd in stitches.
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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.
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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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Albanese's first-class folly hijacks airport talk
Paul Sheehan On the final day of the most recent session of federal Parliament, Anthony Norman Albanese did what he has spent much of his public career doing - making sneering, personal attacks.
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One small word, one giant leap for NSW
Paul Sheehan I voted for Clover Moore. I marked Clover ''1'' on my ballot paper even though in many ways my local member stands for the micro-managing, grimly earnest, nanny-state, tax-guzzling policies that I...
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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.
