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.
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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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Labor lifts, Abbott shifts, credibility drifts
Lenore Taylor LABOR'S national secretary, George Wright, says Australian politics has entered the ''post-carbon'' phase.
Dear 2GB, Here are a few ''facts'' you might like to check
Lenore Taylor Dear 2GB fact checker, Here are a few ''facts'' you might like to check. For starters.
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Fact is Abbott must be watchful of Jones's distorted views
Lenore Taylor It's not really surprising Tony Abbott has rejected Labor's demand that he boycott Alan Jones's radio show on the grounds that ''I am not going to ignore an audience of half a million people in...
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Abbott may rue failure to tune out Jones
Lenore Taylor The mutual admiration pact with broadcaster Alan Jones could backfire on the Opposition Leader. He should take into account a few things beyond the tasteless comments about the Prime Minister's...
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Dirty power generators emerge smelling of roses
Lenore Taylor A FIGHT over compensation to brown coal generators almost scuttled the carbon tax last year - and more than a year later resentment about how much money the companies got still runs deep.
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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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War timed to shed light on surging power bills
Lenore Taylor There's nothing the media loves as much as a good rhetorical war. We've had culture wars. History wars. The particularly odious ''mummy wars''.
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All the poorer when you break the piggy bank
Lenore Taylor My son once earnestly told me if Aladdin's genie gave him one wish he'd ask for a magic piggy bank that filled itself up when he'd spent all his money. I said I wouldn't mind one of those myself.
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Hot air and carbon tax claims
Lenore Taylor LABOR was demonstrating ''breathtaking arrogance'' by refusing to countenance the repeal of the carbon tax under an Abbott government, the Coalition said yesterday.
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Forecast gloomy for yet another climate talkfest
Lenore Taylor On what was supposed to be the final morning of the 2009 Copenhagen conference on climate change I came as close as I ever have in my adult life to hitting someone.
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Rio: no progress at the top, but a bit on the side
Lenore Taylor Since the first Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago, Brazil's population has grown by 50 million and its economy has also grown strongly, at least until this year.
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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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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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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.
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ETS off the agenda until late next term
LENORE TAYLOR THE Rudd government has shelved its emissions trading scheme for at least three years in a bid to defuse Tony Abbott's "great big new tax" attack in this year's election campaign.
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Decision that shattered faith in PM
Lenore Taylor It was the decision that seemed to snap voters' faith in Kevin Rudd. Perhaps a final straw. Straight after the government announced it was deferring an emissions trading scheme until 2013, graphs of...
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Mouth that launched 1000 slips
Lenore Taylor Barnaby Joyce has much tougher things to learn right now than just avoiding bad taste jokes about using Productivity Commission reports as toilet paper.
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No light at the end of this tunnel
Lenore Taylor Here's a conversation starter for your candlelit party tonight. Is climate change just too hard for our politicians? There's strong evidence it might be.
