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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Security Council bid long overdue
Phillip Coorey When Julia Gillard touches down in New York this morning, she will be on a mission from Rudd. It was on a Saturday afternoon, 4 1/2 years ago, during his first major overseas odyssey as prime...
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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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PM picks a winner, but is more cautious about contest at the UN
Phillip Coorey Just before leaving New York, Julia Gillard made one successful prediction - that the Swans would win the AFL grand final.
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Team players get top jobs but mavericks make a difference
Phillip Coorey About three years ago, Barnaby Joyce had a half-hearted crack at replacing Warren Truss as the leader of the Nationals.
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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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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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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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Gillard has faith in poll resurrection
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard is not one to bemoan her lot publicly, nor is she prone to reacting to the potshots her detractors take at her personal life.
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Labor hegemony may be dead but it's not all bad for Gillard
Phillip Coorey This Friday, the Labor government will find itself outnumbered for the first time in 4½ years in office.
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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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Politics looks a little topsy-turvy
Phillip Coorey This political year ends with Labor behaving as though it is in opposition and the Coalition humming along as though it were in government.
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Howard's book simply circles the wagons around his own legacy
Phillip Coorey Nothing is ever certain in politics, but in late 2007 it was a near certainty - and had been for some time - that John Howard's Coalition government was going to lose.
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Abbott the cyborg assassin will not give up on his hell-bent mission
Phillip Coorey Just after Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor decided to back Labor, a relieved minister observed that, throughout the election campaign, Tony Abbott had reminded him of the Terminator, the...
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Labor 2.0: a lumbering beast that might just avoid extinction
Phillip Coorey The soft carpet throughout the ministerial wing in Parliament House has its benefits, especially if you are a Labor minister walking behind two Liberal frontbenchers who do not realise you are there...
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Rudd has no choice but to keep arguing
Phillip Coorey The last prime minister to throw a rock at a big sleeping bear and come off second best was John Howard.
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Rudd may be the blip in selling mining tax
Phillip Coorey The government's penchant for acronyms has reached the stage where even the opposition is struggling to keep up.
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The overlooked truth: states cannot afford soaring health costs
Phillip Coorey When he was the opposition leader, Kevin Rudd once observed the two state Labor governments he rated the highest were those of Victoria and South Australia.
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Fix-it man Combet stuck on the lower rung
Phillip Coorey When Kevin Rudd appointed Greg Combet as the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change last June it was supposed to be a secondary and temporary role.
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Too much exercise is Abbott forming
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott has nothing on Dwight Eisenhower. Ike averaged one game of golf every three days during his eight years in the White House.
