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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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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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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More to budgets than DNA
Lenore Taylor Perhaps all the analysis of Julia Gillard's motivation for naming the election date has over-complicated things.
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Tax plan a sop to Katter after hung parliament
Lenore Taylor The Coalition is considering offering $10,000 rebates to taxpayers in ''selected'' remote regions to boost their economies - a plan first mooted in negotiations with independent Bob Katter after the...
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It's all well to boast but tall stories don't fit hard facts
Lenore Taylor For most people this is the season of menu planning and internet shopping, but in Canberra it's the season to road test themes for the 2013 election year.
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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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Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed
Lenore Taylor After two bitter years, Australia's political tug of war appears to have reached that frozen moment when the teams have struggled back to almost even pegging and no one is sure which way the...
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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.
Another gotcha moment for gunslinger Abbott
Lenore Taylor ON THE surface it was another political ''gotcha'' - Tony Abbott uses morning radio to lambast Julia Gillard for ''swanning'' around New York ''talking to Africans'' about her bid for a seat on the...
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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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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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Lack of carnage Abbott's inconvenient fiscal truth
Lenore Taylor Perhaps Tony Abbott needs to send out a search party or post a reward because, bafflingly, his carbon tax wrecking ball appears to have gone missing.
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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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Gillard seeks united front for economic journey
Lenore Taylor No modern politician holds a meeting without a ''deliverable'' - something they can say it has achieved so it is not judged to be a failure.
Wounded Abbott may need to revisit strategy
Lenore Taylor LABOR'S Speaker surprise is another sign that Tony Abbott's strategy to bludgeon the minority government into an election is falling just short.
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Self-interest will dictate that the party now unites
Lenore Taylor DESPITE everything, Labor is likely to appear unified, at least for a little while.
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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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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.
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Robin Hood budget will give Abbott no merriment
Lenore Taylor Trained observer that I am, I reckon the Gillard government wants this to be seen as a ''Robin Hood'' budget - designed to make a ''Labor values'' political virtue of the deep cuts necessary to...
