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.
Without hated red tape, we'd be in a bigger tangle
Lenore Taylor It's time to call out the incredible hypocrisy of politicians banging on about tape. And also the way politics is trumping policy on an almost daily basis.
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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No one wins in abuse of the law, media and politics
Lenore Taylor This should be the time to pause for thought. After a year of scandal, sometimes substantive, sometimes driven by the Coalition's determination to claw down the minority government, this...
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Question so difficult Coalition can't hear
Lenore Taylor IT'S a classic way to avoid answering a question - pretend you've been asked a different one.
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It may not be Watergate but more explanation is needed
Lenore Taylor Within about 16 hours of James Ashby lodging his sexual harassment claim against Peter Slipper in April, Tony Abbott was dead certain of its implications for the Speaker and also for the government.
Dogged Abbott caught in slips
Lenore Taylor The real problem is not that Tony Abbott hasn't read the judgment in which the Federal Court threw out the sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper.
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Silly, but Tony stands by his man
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT looked silly saying he has been doing too many ''important things'' to read the Federal Court judgment that threw out the sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper.
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MPs behaving badly - a year best forgotten
Lenore Taylor The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama.
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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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Hold on to your bonnets for the new Downton Abbott
Lenore Taylor It was a blitzkrieg of love, an admiration avalanche. Margie Abbott, flanked by Tony, sitting close on the couch on the Today show, pictured walking the cute dog and lazing on the grass, alongside...
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Pugilistic Labor tries to land a blow as Abbott skips away
Lenore Taylor While everyone's been busy debating whether Tony Abbott's alleged pugilism is real or a fit-up by Labor ladies wielding handbags, it's been easy to overlook the fact that the next election campaign...
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Coalition set to oppose Oakeshott code for parliamentary behaviour
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT might have described as ''elegant'' Malcolm Turnbull's speech critiquing the quality of Australia's political debate, but the Coalition is set to oppose a parliamentary ''code of...
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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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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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War timed to shed light on surging power bills
Lenore Taylor There's nothing the media loves as much as a good rhetorical war. We've had culture wars. History wars. The particularly odious ''mummy wars''.
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One fight the Coalition will shy away from
Lenore Taylor SCRAPE away the rhetoric and Labor's Fair Work Act seems to be neither the sure-fire productivity killer business has made it out to be, nor definitely in the clear.
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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.
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.
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Hot air and carbon tax claims
Lenore Taylor LABOR was demonstrating ''breathtaking arrogance'' by refusing to countenance the repeal of the carbon tax under an Abbott government, the Coalition said yesterday.
