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.
Reality show bathed in myths and stereotyping
Lenore Taylor It occupied almost a week of political ''analysis'', filled acres of newsprint and hours of airtime, but the truth is the ''westfest'' at Rooty Hill changed very little.
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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Facts flee as politicians take low road on asylum
Lenore Taylor Here's what Scott Morrison could have said in his interview with 2UE's Jason Morrison on Wednesday.
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Trapped in the worst of both worlds, Labor gets tougher still
Lenore Taylor As Chris Bowen announced yet another toughening of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, a reporter from Al Jazeera asked the Immigration Minister if he was ''aware of the reputation for...
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If they allow a little compassionate labour, this might work
Lenore Taylor WHILE Australia ponders how to extricate itself from this worst-of-all-worlds position on asylum policy, the Coalition's suggestion that refugees on Labor's bridging visas should be required to do...
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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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Political deadlock may sink the most important finding
Lenore Taylor IT IS almost total political surrender.
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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.
MPs stand up for their beliefs, and fall down on their duty to protect lives
Lenore Taylor The Australian Parliament is failing us. It is putting politicking ahead of human life.
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No happy ending for this soap opera about power
Lenore Taylor The past few days in politics have been like the penultimate scene in a police drama. The main characters have finally come clean with the truth they have been withholding all this time, and the...
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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.
Gillard's grip on power
Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.
