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The story of Louise: why the police have no case to answer, but I do
At 6pm on Monday I had a heart-sinking conversation with Louise, the woman who was the subject of my column that day.
- by Paul Sheehan
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A sorry tale of dealing with Telstra's 'customer service'
On the fourth call, I am advised by the recorded voice to go to a trouble-shooting website to register my problem. But my internet is not working, which is why I have the time to make such a determined run at trying to speak to a human being.
- by Paul Sheehan
The Australian Rhino Project: one man's remarkable battle against savagery
The murder of a British pilot, Roger Gower, shot down by elephant poachers near the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania on January 28, highlighted the scale of the threat posed by armed crews of poachers. Tanzania's elephant population has crashed from 109,000 to 40,000 in the past seven years.
- by Paul Sheehan
The new Big Short: China may soon rock the global financial system
The Big Short is a sensational movie about rotten banks, but an even bigger story about banking may be unfolding in China.
- by Paul Sheehan
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Opinion
Is Malcolm Turnbull insane? We shall soon find out
Some brutal things have been said about Malcolm Turnbull during his long career in public life - that he's narcissistic, bullying, volatile, duplicitous, disingenuous - but no-one has yet proposed that he is certifiably insane.
- by Paul Sheehan
For voters, elite is a dirty word
Voter distrust towards the political class has become potent. It is potent in the United States, it is volatile in Europe and it is evident in Australia, where the electorate has dispatched ten major party leaders in just 12 years.
- by Paul Sheehan
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Moral mercenary Amal Clooney works both sides of the human rights contest
Amal Clooney has been cast as a moral paragon, a human rights crusader for the downtrodden. But she has also engaged in some questionable advocacy.
- by Paul Sheehan
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Why the new push for an Australian republic is doomed to fail
What passes for a new debate about a republic is a shallow fraud built on zero substance.
- by Paul Sheehan
The concierge faction is choking the NSW Liberal Party and threatening Malcolm Turnbull's authority
You would think Malcolm Turnbull's insurmountable lead over Opposition Leader Bill Shorten would strengthen his influence over his home state division. But the NSW Liberal Party is in the grip of the "concierge faction": the lobbyists, the facilitators, the door-openers.
- by Paul Sheehan
Global markets now treat Australia as an economic colony of China
Australia has enjoyed 25 years of unbroken growth thanks in large part to the Chinese economic miracle. We've had the good, and now comes the bad.
- by Paul Sheehan
Push to ban child marriages dubbed 'blasphemy' in Pakistan
One in every four women in the world is married off by the age of 17, and a government's attempt to prevent this has just been rebuffed as "blasphemous" and "anti-Islamic".
- by Paul Sheehan
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