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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Big dreams not just the hat talking
Phillip Coorey Last Wednesday, as the government and the opposition were busy tearing out each other's throats over events 20 years ago, Bob Katter provided the relief.
Faulkner's reform calls unlikely to go anywhere fast
Phillip Coorey Until now, Faulkner had been railing against the corrosive effects of factionalism on the ALP's structure and membership.
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As the Coalition knows, there is a long history of costing opposition policies
Phillip Coorey The opposition and some sections of the media are in high dudgeon because information has been released. However, it's not the first time a government has costed opposition policies.
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Rudd camp stirs the surplus soup
Phillip Coorey Some weeks ago, Kevin Rudd accepted an invitation to join Bob Hawke and Bob Carr at Darling Harbour yesterday to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic ties between China and Australia.
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Nothing new, just more sounding off
Phillip Coorey THE capacity for selfish and destructive behaviour within the Labor Party never ceases to amaze.
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Team players get top jobs but mavericks make a difference
Phillip Coorey About three years ago, Barnaby Joyce had a half-hearted crack at replacing Warren Truss as the leader of the Nationals.
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Rudd's special status makes every move suspect
Phillip Coorey According to Kevin Rudd's numbers men, the former prime minister is about 10 votes shy of Julia Gillard.
Loss of life convinces some members to change their course
Phillip Coorey THE asylum seeker debate yesterday was punctuated by people once opposed to offshore processing explaining why a steady stream of deaths at sea had led them to change their minds.
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Voters switch off as leadership soap opera jumps the shark
Phillip Coorey When Kevin Rudd quit as foreign minister he described Labor's leadership crisis as a soap opera and a saga.
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PM ends her week as she began - with a win
Phillip Coorey JULIA Gillard has turned disaster into a stunning victory and, in doing so, has reasserted the authority the party only renewed in her on Monday.
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Carr to go after the one that got away
Phillip Coorey A week ago, Bob Carr called on his new federal Labor colleagues to put aside the ill-feeling caused by the leadership dispute and to ''dwell a bit more on the horror of an Abbott-led government''.
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Gillard has faith in poll resurrection
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard is not one to bemoan her lot publicly, nor is she prone to reacting to the potshots her detractors take at her personal life.
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PM's cunning words get Labor talking
Phillip Coorey JULIA GILLARD says the government needs an equal mix of courage and cunning if it is to prevail, in remarks that have been construed by some as pushing back at criticisms levelled by the party elder...
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Sales talk begins as election moves into focus
Phillip Coorey With Julia Gillard expected to call the election today, Tony Abbott has tried to define the contest as being about the need to get rid of a bad government full of flawed characters.
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Labor decides salvation lies in panic
Phillip Coorey Panic caused Labor to slump in the polls. Now it has resorted to panic to reverse the slump. Never in contemporary politics has a party, let alone a government, inflicted such misery on itself.
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Rudd in no hurry to fix mining standoff
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's decision to skip the Minerals Council of Australia's annual shindig this week and attend a Labor Party function instead is a gesture both symbolic and pointed.
