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.
Without hated red tape, we'd be in a bigger tangle
Lenore Taylor It's time to call out the incredible hypocrisy of politicians banging on about tape. And also the way politics is trumping policy on an almost daily basis.
Reforms are wounded, and the damage is self-inflicted
Lenore Taylor The government was last night trying to salvage some of its media reform laws in a last-minute compromise it hoped would provide political cover for its retreat on the rest.
Media tread fine line when tribes go to war
Lenore Taylor It was yet another week when politicians and the media appeared consumed with talking to, and about, each other.
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Teams lining up early for a Coalition victory
Lenore Taylor The wildness sweeping Australian politics is fuelled by the fact that all the players now appear not just to be expecting a Coalition victory, but to be factoring it in as a certainty and...
Reality show bathed in myths and stereotyping
Lenore Taylor It occupied almost a week of political ''analysis'', filled acres of newsprint and hours of airtime, but the truth is the ''westfest'' at Rooty Hill changed very little.
Gillard throws a punch, but Abbott ducks
Lenore Taylor What to do when your opponent is presenting the smallest of small targets - and successfully getting away with it - and the electorate has stopped listening to you? Answer: Pick a fight.
Abbott keeps clear of Fair Work challenge
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has again announced a policy designed in part to pick a fight with the Coalition.
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After the break-up, parties are free to be themselves
Lenore Taylor Christine Milne formal declaration that the alliance is all over with Labor doesn't change much in practice.
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Billion-dollar industry spend? Make that a cut
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard's $1 billion jobs package actually cuts at least half a billion dollars from the industry portfolio - money that can now go directly to salvaging other areas of Labor's...
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Time ticking for embattled Labor
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda.
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Something has to give - sooner or later
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda as previously strong supporters contemplate the desperate threat to both the Labor Party and the union movement posed by...
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Once again, scandal diverts from substance
Lenore Taylor Day one of Julia Gillard's "turn the torch on Tony" election year strategy was derailed by Labor's continued Health Services Union trauma.
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More to budgets than DNA
Lenore Taylor Perhaps all the analysis of Julia Gillard's motivation for naming the election date has over-complicated things.
Case of hard Labor - PM employs shock tactics to try to steer the debate her way
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard was entering an election year without the usual benefits of incumbency, so she's taken a tactical risk to shake things up.
Peter Slipper and the high price of rushed judgment
Lenore Taylor Surely now it's time to take stock of how politics is being conducted.
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No one wins in abuse of the law, media and politics
Lenore Taylor This should be the time to pause for thought. After a year of scandal, sometimes substantive, sometimes driven by the Coalition's determination to claw down the minority government, this...
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It may not be Watergate but more explanation is needed
Lenore Taylor Within about 16 hours of James Ashby lodging his sexual harassment claim against Peter Slipper in April, Tony Abbott was dead certain of its implications for the Speaker and also for the government.
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Political death roll promises all bets off for major parties
Lenore Taylor Being very much at the ''are we there yet?'' end of this year's long and gruelling political journey, it's getting harder to laugh at the more extreme doses of daily advice we get from followers on...
Labor has choked on a surplus of promises
Lenore Taylor Economists, government advisors and backbenchers have known for some time that, with growth slowing and revenue falling, keeping Labor's promise to return the budget to a skinny $1.
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Swan eats crow - and not a day too soon
Lenore Taylor ECONOMICALLY he was doing the right thing. Politically he was eating crow. Which is why it took Wayne Swan so long to do it.
