Lenore Taylor
Lenore Taylor is chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a Walkley Award winner, a winner of the Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in press gallery journalism and a former foreign correspondent, based in London. She co-authored a book, "Shitstorm" on the Rudd government's response to the global economic crisis. She has covered federal politics for more than 20 years.
A warrior for the wilderness
Lenore Taylor It was the kind of civilised leadership transition no major party has pulled off in recent history - the popular long-serving leader stands down at a time of his own choosing ''to make way for new...
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Vision? Party leaders have eyes only for polls
Lenore Taylor Like the unwanted suitor who appears ever more pathetic the more he seeks to please, politicians appear to be despised by focus groups.
Premiers to slash green tape, inefficient climate schemes
Lenore Taylor, Phillip Coorey THE Gillard government and the states, including NSW, will back business demands for faster environmental approvals and the abolition of redundant climate change policies.
Albanese kick-starts airport at Wilton
Lenore Taylor THE federal government's chief transport bureaucrat has written to Sydney Airport Corporation requesting talks on a second airport in Sydney, the first legal step in planning for a second site,...
MPs unite against move to eradicate airport's hourly cap
Lenore Taylor FEDERAL frontbenchers from both major parties have categorically rejected a call for an end to the hourly cap on aircraft movements at Sydney Airport.
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Airport chaos imminent but the cockpit's vacant
Lenore Taylor The failure to build a second Sydney airport is a decades-long story of political myopia and cowardice from both major parties.
Government fends off Big Tobacco arguments
Lenore Taylor REGISTERING a trademark gives the owner the right to exclude others from using it, but not the guaranteed future right to use it themselves, the federal government argues in its submission on the...
US behind China on carbon - Turnbull
Lenore Taylor CHINA is more likely than the United States to provide global climate change leadership, the former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull believes.
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Many obstacles on the road to nanny nirvana
Lenore Taylor For the first year after maternity leave both of my children were cared for by a nanny. It cost us a bomb and we couldn't get government rebates.
Nanny rebate would cost $2b
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT'S plan to extend the childcare rebate to include nannies would cost about $500 million a year, according to calculations by the federal bureaucracy.
Future Fund chairman takes aim at mining tax
Lenore Taylor THE outgoing Future Fund chairman, David Murray, has slammed the Gillard government's mining tax, saying it is badly designed and would only make sense as a stabiliser for the two-speed economy if...
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Taking a Slipper to the mob at question time
Lenore Taylor I've endured many grievous challenges to my powers of concentration over the years. There was double maths on a Friday afternoon in a Brisbane classroom with a fine view of the Cloudland Ballroom,...
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By hook or by crook the PM is holdin' on
Lenore Taylor PEA and thimble tricks look like open, transparent exercises when compared with the way governments have traditionally funded the Australian car industry.
Heffernan slams policy on foreign farm buys
Lenore Taylor THE Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has described as ''bullshit'' his party's proposed policy for more scrutiny of overseas companies buying into Australian agriculture because it ignored the real...
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No gleam of souped-up ideas among the lemons
Lenore Taylor In the best tradition of the bush mechanics, both Labor and the Coalition are making do with some very dilapidated policy vehicles.
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Mining magnate's media trust would be 'hands-off'
Lenore Taylor FOR a billionaire who has been accused of ''poisoning'' the nation's political debate, the mining magnate Clive Palmer appears to have given quite some thought to the freedom of the media.
Rudd footage under investigation
Lenore Taylor THE Australian Federal Police are investigating the leak of highly damaging video footage of Kevin Rudd repeatedly swearing and banging a desk, which triggered the escalation of tensions before last...
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Beneath old political scores is $73 billion
Lenore Taylor He's the Coodabeen Champion of politics - coodabeen Prime Minister if he had challenged John Howard, or probably even if he'd just stuck around after the Coalition's 2007 defeat.
Barnaby Joyce breaks ranks over foreign ownership of farmland
Lenore Taylor THE Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony...
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Toughened times in the United States of Tony
Lenore Taylor In the discontinued television series United States of Tara, Toni Collette played a woman who displayed different personalities when under stress.
