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.
Gillard throws a punch, but Abbott ducks
Lenore Taylor What to do when your opponent is presenting the smallest of small targets - and successfully getting away with it - and the electorate has stopped listening to you? Answer: Pick a fight.
Abbott keeps clear of Fair Work challenge
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has again announced a policy designed in part to pick a fight with the Coalition.
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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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Airport debacle stuck in eternal holding pattern
Lenore Taylor Next time you hear a politician banging on about productivity consider this. And scoff.
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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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Class is in session, and a maths test is coming up
Lenore Taylor When the heads of the Catholic and independent school systems in NSW left a private meeting with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, the Education Minister, Peter Garrett, and a posse of NSW...
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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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The pain behind plan by Abbott's Mr Fix-It
Lenore Taylor The Gillard government believes its last, best hope of survival will come when Tony Abbott finally reveals how and where he will cut spending.
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Who framed feminism?
Lenore Taylor Anne-Marie Slaughter was the first woman director of policy planning for the US State Department. She's now a professor at Princeton University. So, she's obviously very smart.
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Toughened times in the United States of Tony
Lenore Taylor In the discontinued television series United States of Tara, Toni Collette played a woman who displayed different personalities when under stress.
