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.
Analysis
Labor's political dysfunction reaches new heights
Lenore Taylor After this debacle, with an election just six months away, the Rudd ''camp'' must surely be folding their tents. But only after another extraordinary spectacle of Labor self-harm.
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Unions go neutral as poll hopes dry up
Lenore Taylor IN THE showdown in February with the former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard had almost unanimous support from MPs who owe their position to the union movement.
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Punch and Judy show that's destroying Labor
Lenore Taylor Labor's legitimacy crisis with the voting public is now infecting the party itself. Those backing Gillard and those backing Rudd don't just run down the rival candidate as being an inferior choice...
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End of the phoney war, time for straight talk
Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD now has the chance to do some long-overdue straight talking.
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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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Self-interest will dictate that the party now unites
Lenore Taylor DESPITE everything, Labor is likely to appear unified, at least for a little while.
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Plenty of promises, but not much delivery
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard talks a lot about the national disability insurance scheme.
Unspeakable dilemma for a stumbling Labor
Lenore Taylor A farmer in western NSW told me last week he was a Nationals voter and his daughter ''used to'' vote Labor. ''I don't know what she's going to do now,'' he said. I asked him what he meant.
