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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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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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...
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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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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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Political tweeters may troll too close to home
Lenore Taylor Suddenly, politicians of all persuasions have begun worrying that we need to ''do something'' about ''trolls'' and the misuse of social media.
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Long, bitter stand-off casts shameful shadow
Lenore Taylor In a little over a week when politicians return to Canberra it will be time to face a decision they have been squibbing for almost a year.
MPs stand up for their beliefs, and fall down on their duty to protect lives
Lenore Taylor The Australian Parliament is failing us. It is putting politicking ahead of human life.
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Unions go neutral as poll hopes dry up
Lenore Taylor IN THE showdown in February with the former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard had almost unanimous support from MPs who owe their position to the union movement.
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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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No gleam of souped-up ideas among the lemons
Lenore Taylor In the best tradition of the bush mechanics, both Labor and the Coalition are making do with some very dilapidated policy vehicles.
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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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Abbott makes a con into a pro and backtracks on education promises
Lenore Taylor In trying to sidestep the political tripwires in Labor's budget, the Coalition has got itself into a tangle.
The powerful spin of Abbott's wrecking ball
Lenore Taylor Bill Kelty had some advice for the labour movement this week. He was puzzling over why Labor seemed to have lost hope and trust and a sense of purpose.
Political feeding frenzy a plague on both houses
Lenore Taylor The fetid cloud of hypocrisy rising from our federal Parliament must surely by now be visible from space.
Abbott plays the triangle to create a clever discord
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott's Coalition has been executing the political manoeuvre of triangulation with a skill that would impress the tactic's originator, Bill Clinton's former adviser Dick Morris.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best scoop
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.
Gillard's grip on power
Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.
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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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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.
