Lenore Taylor

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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In the court of public opinion, PM's case is holding sway

Lenore Taylor THERE is now something like a formulated charge in the long-running saga of the Prime Minister and the alleged thief who was her lover. But making a charge is not the same as proving it.

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The moment of truth finally arrives

Lenore Taylor AFTER so much pain, so many shocking revelations, so many years of thankless campaigning by the betrayed and so much resistance by the accused, the fight to expose the full horrible truth about...

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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.

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Grizzling goes on over the baby bombshell

Lenore Taylor A brief detour through recent Coalition history reveals that Labor's campaign to paint Tony Abbott as a ''sexist'', 1950s-style Leave it to Beaver conservative was an undercurrent even in the...

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Promises, promises, now it's time to do the sums

Lenore Taylor Like most things in our sorry political discourse, the debate over the alarming discrepancy between what politicians are promising to spend and the money we have to pay for it is being conducted as a...

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The pain behind plan by Abbott's Mr Fix-It

Lenore Taylor The Gillard government believes its last, best hope of survival will come when Tony Abbott finally reveals how and where he will cut spending.

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Labor boxed in over the price of pies and pizzas

Lenore Taylor If you needed any more evidence that our national political debate is warped way out of shape, consider this.

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Abbott's economic feather knocks down Labor's record

Lenore Taylor Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s Press Club speech attacked the very point Labor sees as its greatest strength — economic management — armed with little more than rhetoric and previously announced...

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Abbott needs magic to pull surplus out of a hat

Lenore Taylor The rest of the world started 2012 transfixed by the unfolding euro zone debt crisis. In Australia, we started with some confusion about whether the last global financial crisis happened at all.

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Abbott has painted himself into several corners

Lenore Taylor THE fight over the car industry shows exactly why Tony Abbott doesn't want to explain where he will make his budget cuts.

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No happy ending for this soap opera about power

Lenore Taylor The past few days in politics have been like the penultimate scene in a police drama. The main characters have finally come clean with the truth they have been withholding all this time, and the...

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Plenty of promises, but not much delivery

Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard talks a lot about the national disability insurance scheme.

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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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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.

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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.

Gillard's grip on power

Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.