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.
Perspective the first casualty of budget backlash
Lenore Taylor We go through this screaming match every time the government announces budget cuts, but it seems more hysterical than usual this time.
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Robin Hood budget will give Abbott no merriment
Lenore Taylor Trained observer that I am, I reckon the Gillard government wants this to be seen as a ''Robin Hood'' budget - designed to make a ''Labor values'' political virtue of the deep cuts necessary to...
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.
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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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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.
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.
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Politicians never learn, and so they keep on promising
Lenore Taylor I f politicians learn one thing from this sorry Parliament it must surely be not to make promises they can't keep.
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MPs behaving badly - a year best forgotten
Lenore Taylor The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama.
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It's all well to boast but tall stories don't fit hard facts
Lenore Taylor For most people this is the season of menu planning and internet shopping, but in Canberra it's the season to road test themes for the 2013 election year.
Pyne caught red-handed with the airbrush
Lenore Taylor Christopher Pyne had his airbrush out yesterday – erasing the entire global financial crisis from Australia's economic history.
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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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Longing for grown ups to cut out the silliness
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott has access to more focus-group polling than I do, and he's clearly doing something right because he still looks like romping home at the next election.
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Council seeks consensus on the big questions
Lenore Taylor WHEN the Business Council of Australia calls for a ''new accord'' it doesn't mean another Bob Hawke-inspired trade-off between wages and inflation.
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Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed
Lenore Taylor After two bitter years, Australia's political tug of war appears to have reached that frozen moment when the teams have struggled back to almost even pegging and no one is sure which way the...
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Labor lifts, Abbott shifts, credibility drifts
Lenore Taylor LABOR'S national secretary, George Wright, says Australian politics has entered the ''post-carbon'' phase.
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Take a reality check with a walk on the other side
Lenore Taylor In a world where reality television has a powerful impact on reality, maybe a TV show would focus attention on the real situation of Australia's unemployed.
Labor's big-ticket promises may leave Coalition in a bind
Lenore Taylor If Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey sound like they are talking about different budgets when each shouts that the other is digging a "black hole", that's because they (sort of) are.
