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.
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Ranga energy drives day of authority and star exposure
Phillip Coorey JULIA GILLARD is on a mission.
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Slowdown a rich lode for politicians
Phillip Coorey Last week, when the Reserve Bank cut interest rates and downgraded its forecast for the economy, Tony Abbott became the latest politician to declare the mining boom over.
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Emissions trading easier to sell when it goes global
Phillip Coorey PUTTING a floor price on carbon pollution when the carbon tax morphed into an emissions trading scheme in 2015 was always a silly idea.
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Gillard's power play
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard is entering a critical phase for both her leadership and her government. Clearly she has decided to go on the front foot.
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Labor needs another messy battle like a hole in the head
Phillip Coorey AT FIRST blush, it is difficult to think of a powerful interest group not at war with this government.
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Gillard is not for turning on IR
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott has a new line that maintains his theme that Labor is a puppet of the Greens. ''Labor is in government but the Greens are in power,'' the Opposition Leader said on the eve of today's...
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Rudd may be the blip in selling mining tax
Phillip Coorey The government's penchant for acronyms has reached the stage where even the opposition is struggling to keep up.
Sneaky Rudd only has himself to blame
Phillip Coorey When people start accusing the Government of rushing out bad news in the knowledge that the Melbourne Storm scandal was going to break, it has only itself to blame.
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Fix-it man Combet stuck on the lower rung
Phillip Coorey When Kevin Rudd appointed Greg Combet as the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change last June it was supposed to be a secondary and temporary role.
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Minchin's game is swallow the leader
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's Government marks the second anniversary of its election tomorrow, but most attention most attention will be focused on the Opposition and its two climate change factions - Nick Minchin's...
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Patience becomes a PM on the move
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd arrived home early this morning from six days in Afghanistan, India and Singapore. He will be home for less than a fortnight before jetting off to Trinidad and Tobago for the three-day...
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Libs seek unity in a cool climate
Phillip Coorey When Liberals discuss the key reasons why they lost the 2007 election, a monumental failure to read the public mood on climate change is always mentioned.
