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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Churlish Coalition shows little generosity
Phillip Coorey TRY as he might, Tony Abbott was unable to look pleased yesterday when Australia awoke to the news it had secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council for the next two years.
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Both sides respect Beazley, even if he's telling home truths
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott was not kind to Kim Beazley when they were both in Parliament. ''Sanctimonious windbag'' and ''great big bellowing cow'' were two of the more memorable insults that Abbott, then a Howard...
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Gillard still queen of the jungle
Phillip Coorey Two weeks ago, leaked internal polling showed Labor on track to lose the state seat of Melbourne to the Greens in the byelection held on Saturday.
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PM returns to disorder in the House and trouble over Rinehart deal
Phillip Coorey When Julia Gillard arrived home from Chicago on Wednesday morning and saw Anthony Albanese, she made an immediate observation: ''You look tired.''
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Gillard can rearrange the backdrop but the outlook remains the same
Phillip Coorey Last Thursday, before flying from Istanbul to Ankara, and then home, Julia Gillard held the final press conference of her trip abroad.
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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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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.
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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PM ends her week as she began - with a win
Phillip Coorey JULIA Gillard has turned disaster into a stunning victory and, in doing so, has reasserted the authority the party only renewed in her on Monday.
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If Rudd is not the messiah, then it's just a very desperate ploy
Phillip Coorey The Labor MP Darren Cheeseman was downcast on Thursday as he walked the corridor to his Parliament House office.
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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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Clowns creating a circus for Rudd
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's decision not to speak to Kristina Keneally until late on Saturday afternoon - and then only because the newspapers were inquiring as to why no call had been made - was deliberate.
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Railroaded by Rudd, Liberals fume
Phillip Coorey Today is about much more than Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme. It is a fight for the heart and soul of the federal parliamentary Liberal Party.
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Costello's sharp tongue may never taste the milk of human kindness
Phillip Coorey When Labor stalwarts speak of the debt the party owes Kim Beazley, you need look no further than the state of the federal Liberal Party to understand why.
