A provocative statement from Paul Sheehan in the Fairfax press today: What sort of kids are on the streets after 3am, in stolen cars, drinking alcohol, driving recklessly and resisting police?You know the answer. The statistical probability points to a subculture that is overwhelmingly over-represented in arrests, convictions, incarceration, child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence, [...]

We’ve covered the embarrassing silliness of 1980s-era Labor minister Barry Cohen here before. But this week, as Barry won the approval of John Howard, Miranda Devine and far-right crank Bill Muehlenberg (who also managed to slip in some warnings about “the militant gaystapo”), we were sad to see The Australian continuing to make sport of [...]

Paul Sheehan isn’t entirely incorrect about the asylum seeker issue: One of the most passionate and enduring debates in this country has been built on a falsity, a false choice He’s right – it has been built on a “false choice”, although it isn’t the one he identifies. The false choice is that if we [...]

It would seem that there’s simply nothing worth talking about in Australian politics at the moment. How else can we explain Paul “Miracle Water” Sheehan turning the focus of his column to the behaviour of Charlie Sheen? Is it time to look past the cocaine binges, prostitutes, porn stars, death threats and narcissism to see [...]

Paul Sheehan engages in some pseudopsephology to try to make the case that the independent MPs should back a Coalition government: Independents’ support for Labor would betray rural folk … Across regional Australia, a brace of electorates profoundly rejected Labor and the Greens at this election. When you add the combined votes of the ALP [...]

Writing in the SMH, Paul Sheehan argues that Professor Ian Plimer’s new book: … is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence. It seems Sheehan has managed to read and review Plimer’s book (although others note that they weren’t [...]

Paul Sheehan wonders whether there is Islamophobia in Australia. What about proving that Islamophobia exists at all? That would be the logical, ethical and scholarly starting point. But it appears the outcome has already been decided. This would fit the prevailing orthodoxy in academia that the default position for Muslims in Australia is victim. The [...]

Paul Sheehan’s latest column in the SMH is an interesting read. It’s one of those columns where the author tells us exactly what his subject – in this case, Peter Costello – is thinking and goes on to predict exactly what his subject is going to do, all the while not providing any evidence that [...]