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.
PM's obsession rolls on, taking hospitals in the wrong direction
Paul Sheehan Jane Halton is the consummate Canberra mandarin. She is also a consummate political survivor and adaptor.
How Rudd the dud dropped Australia in the alphabet soup
Paul Sheehan Rarely has a government promised so much, spent so much, said so much, and launched so many nationwide programs, and delivered so little value for money and expectation.
Dat'll be the day: Saints go marching in to boost battered city
Paul Sheehan ''Who dat?'' This phrase captivated America over the past fortnight, and it featured in a glorious cultural feel-good story yesterday (Sydney time).
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.
Ruddspeak: verbal hyperinflation
Paul Sheehan As the new opposition leader, Kevin Rudd was given the courtesy of a crisp question time. During the four sitting days in his first week as leader, the average length of question time was one hour...
The 10 anti-anti-commandments and Lord Monckton's verbal bombs
Paul Sheehan 1. The pin-up species of global warming, the polar bear, is increasing in number, not decreasing.
Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics
Paul Sheehan Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day.
Ten debates the greens didn't want to have
Paul Sheehan The pin-up species of global warming, the polar bear, is increasing in number, not decreasing.
Ten anti-anti-commandments and Lord Monckton's verbal bombs
Paul Sheehan The ten anti-anti-commandments and Lord Monckton's verbal bombs
Life's a bitumen nightmare as cities get hotter than hell
Paul Sheehan We cooked on Friday. In between the deluges. Walking to the office across the breezeway at Darling Harbour - except there was no breeze - I overheard a young women say to her friend, ''It's supposed...
Fox adds a brunette to blonde weaponry against the President
Paul Sheehan There are so many blonde women on the Fox News Channel that I ploughed through the channel's website to get the exact number. Thirty-five.
Shock loss in Massachusetts ends Obama euphoria
Paul Sheehan At 9.20 pm today, in Massachusetts, or 1.20 pm on the Australian east coast, the era of Obamamania abruptly ended.
Runaway Republican truck wreaks havoc
Paul Sheehan ''You can't stop the truck! You can't stop the truck!'' The chant went up in Boston as several thousand people gathered to celebrate the end of Barack Obama's political supremacy.
The ABC of seduction: how Mr Darcy depends on damsels
Paul Sheehan The seduction of Annabel Crabb was a civilised affair.
Willow's whacking: barmy army can't rescue Tests now
Paul Sheehan I am not given to conspiracy theories but am deeply suspicious about the paucity of crowd figures available for Test cricket. Cricket has something to hide.
Those waging war on society shouldn't have access to its law
Paul Sheehan Wootton Bassett is a model English town. The name is redolent with connotations of village life, farmers' markets, tiled roofs and doughty values.
From birdie to bogie, the fall of golf's first billionaire
Paul Sheehan The best birthday present Tiger Woods has received today, his 34th birthday, is the news that the cascade of revelations about the cocktail waitresses and hostesses who were part of his personal ...
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.
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.
Neglect of food sources has the chooks coming home to roost
Paul Sheehan We think the society around us is solid but there is an old political aphorism: the difference between social order and disorder is 36 hours without food.
