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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No smoking gun but loaded words have already damaged Gillard
Phillip Coorey The gulf between the circumstantial case and anything actually linking Julia Gillard to knowingly having done something illegal as a lawyer 19 years ago is a cause of frustration among the Prime...
Pressure piles on Slipper - and Gillard
Phillip Coorey Until now, the question of whether Peter Slipper would return to the Speaker's chair in the House of Representatives rested on the findings of two parallel legal processes.
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Thomson, Labor and the race against time
Phillip Coorey Given the glacial pace at which the legal system moves, it is possible that the civil charges against Craig Thomson could be unresolved by the time of the next federal election.
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Eleven years on from Tampa and little has changed
Phillip Coorey Eight days shy of the 11th anniversary of the standoff aboard the MV Tampa, the Parliament is on the cusp of reintroducing the Pacific Solution and a new row has erupted about what to do with a group...
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No end to the relentless pursuit
Phillip Coorey The Craig Thomson saga is like a bushfire sucking all the oxygen out of the air. When Anthony Albanese despaired this morning that in the current climate, ''there is nothing that is not about...
Charges or not, the Thomson nightmare continues for Labor
Phillip Coorey From a political perspective, all that matters in the Craig Thomson saga is whether the MP is eligible to remain in Parliament.
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Thomson saga travels slowly in a cul-de-sac
Phillip Coorey What is being overlooked amid all the huff and puff of the Craig Thomson saga is that the investigation by Fair Work Australia was never supposed to be a precursor to the laying of criminal charges.
HSU warned to clean up or clear out
Phillip Coorey FAIR Work Australia will release its findings against Craig Thomson next month, while his old union, the Health Services Union, faces threats of deregistration or being placed in the hands of...
Abbott's own act to blame for the lack of criminal charges
Phillip Coorey TONY ABBOTT'S frustration that the Fair Work Australia investigation into the Health Services Union has not paved the way explicitly for criminal charges in part stems from legislation he introduced...
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Still no checkmate in minority government chess game
Phillip Coorey It was only last week that Andrew Wilkie, trying to deal himself back into relevance, warned the government it may need him yet.
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Concealment hurts Coalition's clout
Phillip Coorey Suddenly, the Coalition has discovered the sanctity of process. It was two Saturdays ago when news broke that Peter Slipper had been accused by a staff member, James Hunter Ashby, of the criminal...
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Rudd's humble pie leaves a bad taste
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott heads to Alice Springs today for four days, two of which will be spent mixing with young indigenous people on remote stations.
