Phillip Coorey

Phillip Coorey joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 2005 and is the paper's Chief Political Correspondent, based in Canberra. Previously he was the Political Editor for Adelaide's The Advertiser. He has been in the Canberrra Press Gallery since 1998, except for 2003 and 2004 when he was the New York correspondent for News Ltd.

Behind the push for independent modelling ... Greens Leader Christine Milne.

Mining tax compromise cost billions in revenue

Phillip Coorey THE government would make an extra $26 billion over the next four years if it reversed a handful of changes made to the mining tax after it dumped Kevin Rudd in 2010 and sought to soothe the big...

Gillard, Swan told to slow down or risk key policies

Phillip Coorey THE rural NSW independents have told Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan to stop rushing legislation and playing politics with key policies or risk having budget measures blocked and even the Murray-Darling...

Surplus measure put on ice

Phillip Coorey One of the government's key budget savings measures has been sent to a Senate committee and will not be debated in Parliament until later this month.

Thomson turns his back on Labor

Phillip Coorey THE former Labor MP, Craig Thomson, has labelled his old party hypocritical and will vote against its legislation to excise the Australian mainland from the nation's migration zone.

Forget surplus, business wants growth

Phillip Coorey Peak business groups have stepped up their call for the government to abandon its surplus promise rather than damage the economy with more cuts.

Mainland removed from zone for asylum seekers

Phillip Coorey, Daniel Flitton THE flow of asylum-seeker boats has surged by more than a third since the reintroduction of the Pacific solution, leading the government to adopt a further measure of excising the Australian mainland...

Labor caucus accepts move to excise mainland from migration zone

Dan Harrison, Phillip Coorey The Gillard government will move ahead with a plan to excise the entire Australian mainland from the migration zone, effectively stripping rights from asylum seekers who reach the continent by boat.

Sit tight: Abbott moves to calm nervous Coalition MPs

Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott has moved to calm nerves in the Coalition by telling the party it cannot expect to ride high in the polls for the entirety of the Parliament.

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Rudd calls for honesty about 'traumatic' leadership change

Judith Ireland and Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd has called on Labor MPs associated with the June 2010 leadership change to be honest about what happened, as he stands by his own version of events, in which he argues he was stunned by...

Rudd cancels appearance to save spotlight for Gillard

Phillip Coorey KEVIN RUDD pulled out of an event with Sydney's Chinese community yesterday to avoid criticism of overshadowing Julia Gillard's launch of the Australia in the Asian Century white paper.

Target Asia: education the key

Phillip Coorey EVERY school will be made to teach at least one priority Asian language under a national Asian studies curriculum, as part of a comprehensive embrace of the region aimed at exploiting its rapidly...

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Rudd camp stirs the surplus soup

Phillip Coorey Some weeks ago, Kevin Rudd accepted an invitation to join Bob Hawke and Bob Carr at Darling Harbour yesterday to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic ties between China and Australia.

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Australian prosperity pegged to Asian Century

Phillip Coorey The wealth of individual Australians and the nation as a whole will be boosted dramatically over the next decade through increased engagement with a rapidly rising Asia, a new white paper released...

Greens, MP want mining tax toughened

Phillip Coorey The Greens and independents are demanding the government re-legislate to toughen the mining tax after revelations that not a single cent will be collected in the tax's first three months, threatening...