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.
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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.
Media tread fine line when tribes go to war
Lenore Taylor It was yet another week when politicians and the media appeared consumed with talking to, and about, each other.
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Teams lining up early for a Coalition victory
Lenore Taylor The wildness sweeping Australian politics is fuelled by the fact that all the players now appear not just to be expecting a Coalition victory, but to be factoring it in as a certainty and...
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Time ticking for embattled Labor
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda.
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Something has to give - sooner or later
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda as previously strong supporters contemplate the desperate threat to both the Labor Party and the union movement posed by...
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MPs behaving badly - a year best forgotten
Lenore Taylor The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama.
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PM's speech did stir hearts, but remember the context
Lenore Taylor Most women watching Julia Gillard's speech to Parliament last Tuesday would have felt that silent cheer.
Tanner denies fanning leadership row as he closes political chapter
Lenore Taylor LINDSAY TANNER says his book criticising the Labor Party and the poll-driven ''panic'' that led to the coup against Kevin Rudd was not designed to help provoke another leadership change.
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Some facts on Roy Hill deal, but lots of secrecy
Lenore Taylor THE heated political debate has been full of opinions about the Enterprise Migration Agreement between the government and Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project, but few facts.
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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.
Wounded Abbott may need to revisit strategy
Lenore Taylor LABOR'S Speaker surprise is another sign that Tony Abbott's strategy to bludgeon the minority government into an election is falling just short.
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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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Don't just do something, stand there - Gillard's Zen defence
Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD has decided to fight Kevin Rudd's passive aggressive leadership campaign with a passive ''do nothing'' defence.
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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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Skirmish is over but now comes the real challenge - persuading voters
Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD'S next job is to win the numbers on a much tougher battlefield - the public opinion polls.
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Abbott sweats on ALP loss to repeal carbon tax
Lenore Taylor Sometimes it's the biggest things that politicians don't want to talk about.
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MPs ponder the unthinkable - Rudd
Lenore Taylor SENIOR Labor figures agree Julia Gillard has just weeks to shore up her leadership, and that she may not. But they can't agree on what should happen if she doesn't.
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Policy the first casualty in pollies' phoney war
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott's budget reply was entirely rhetorical - when Julia Gillard told the Coalition leader he should leave the north shore and get out into the real world he thundered she was deliberately and...
