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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Plenty of signs, none of them good for ALP
Phillip Coorey THE backlash against the Brumby government in Victoria has surprised federal Labor, jeopardised its health reforms and paved the way for a thrashing of NSW Labor on March 26.
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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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Absent Hockey will be front and centre if Abbott falters
Phillip Coorey There was a brief period of unrest in the Coalition last week when MPs were wondering why the shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, was not among the speakers at an economic summit in Melbourne.
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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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Green dilemma has Labor in a spin
Phillip Coorey The whole political establishment will be watching this Saturday's byelection for the state seat of Melbourne.
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PM to bask in overseas glow as the knives sharpen at home
Phillip Coorey Sunday week, June 24, will mark the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's leadership coup over Kevin Rudd.
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Why the Coalition is on a winner - it's all about individual pain
Phillip Coorey W hen John Howard told Parliament on March 26, 2007, ''working families in Australia have never been better off'', he was entitled to boast.
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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...
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Gillard's grace under pressure may not be enough
Phillip Coorey Gillard's strength and toughness has got her this far and those who once thought she would be the kind to tap the mat should she realise she could not lead Labor to victory, are rethinking.
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After Bligh, the deluge: Gillard's own day of reckoning awaits her
Phillip Coorey If Julia Gillard were a coal miner, her canaries would not just be dead - they would be dead, buried and cremated.
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Liberals can walk policy tightrope while Labor circus is in town
Phillip Coorey As a follower of Irish politics, the Liberal Party's federal director, Brian Loughnane, is a fan of the acronym GUBU.
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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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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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Rudd turns to the people not the party
Phillip Coorey KEVIN Rudd is counting on the love of the people, not his colleagues, if he is to emerge victorious from Monday's leadership ballot.
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Gillard showed flawed judgment by appearing on program
Phillip Coorey The question being asked rhetorically around Parliament House this morning was ''why?''. As in, why did Gillard agree to be interviewed for a show which, many in the ALP feared, was always going to...
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Abbott faces battle telling NSW Liberals what to do
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott will have no quibble with a finding in part two of Labor's post-election review, the unreleased section that deals with the election campaign.
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Labor on a steady path to same-sex weddings
Phillip Coorey At the hideously-confected affair that masqueraded as the 2009 ALP national conference, one rare area of real contention was gay marriage.
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Keys to Lodge lie in NSW or Queensland
Phillip Coorey This election, like its immediate predecessors, will be won and lost in NSW and Queensland.
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Cold war begins in depths of winter
Phillip Coorey There has only been one other August federal election since federation and, like this poll, it was held on August 21. It was 1943.
