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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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.
PM must reward thumping endorsement with better performance
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard's caucus has backed her emphatically. Now she must return the favour.
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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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Round and round with parade of leaders
Phillip Coorey Should Labor lose this election, Tony Abbott would be Australia's third prime minister in two months and its fourth in three years.
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Turnbull adds spice as leaders languish
Phillip Coorey One of the daftest statements this column has made came one year ago, with the call not even Tony Abbott was ''crazy enough'' to believe he would ever lead the Liberal Party.
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Martyr Turnbull comes in from cold
Phillip Coorey If Australians wanted an emissions trading scheme, they should have voted for John Howard at the last election.
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Managing Joyce hard task for either side
Phillip Coorey The finance portfolio has been maligned and overhyped in recent decades. The Coalition started it in 1996 by labelling the $10 billion budget deficit inherited from Labor as the ''Beazley black...
Robb's rousing words trigger chain reaction
Phillip Coorey John Howard's old adviser, Grahame Morris, picked it on Monday night.
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Turnbull tortured by his own party
Phillip Coorey You really have to wonder about the Liberal Party. Only weeks after Peter Costello anoints the Opposition spokesman on health, Peter Dutton, as a future leader, and days after Malcolm Turnbull and...
