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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Political death roll promises all bets off for major parties
Lenore Taylor Being very much at the ''are we there yet?'' end of this year's long and gruelling political journey, it's getting harder to laugh at the more extreme doses of daily advice we get from followers on...
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Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed
Lenore Taylor After two bitter years, Australia's political tug of war appears to have reached that frozen moment when the teams have struggled back to almost even pegging and no one is sure which way the...
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Fact is Abbott must be watchful of Jones's distorted views
Lenore Taylor It's not really surprising Tony Abbott has rejected Labor's demand that he boycott Alan Jones's radio show on the grounds that ''I am not going to ignore an audience of half a million people in...
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Abbott may rue failure to tune out Jones
Lenore Taylor The mutual admiration pact with broadcaster Alan Jones could backfire on the Opposition Leader. He should take into account a few things beyond the tasteless comments about the Prime Minister's...
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Political tweeters may troll too close to home
Lenore Taylor Suddenly, politicians of all persuasions have begun worrying that we need to ''do something'' about ''trolls'' and the misuse of social media.
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Lack of carnage Abbott's inconvenient fiscal truth
Lenore Taylor Perhaps Tony Abbott needs to send out a search party or post a reward because, bafflingly, his carbon tax wrecking ball appears to have gone missing.
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The pain behind plan by Abbott's Mr Fix-It
Lenore Taylor The Gillard government believes its last, best hope of survival will come when Tony Abbott finally reveals how and where he will cut spending.
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Rio: no progress at the top, but a bit on the side
Lenore Taylor Since the first Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago, Brazil's population has grown by 50 million and its economy has also grown strongly, at least until this year.
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Who framed feminism?
Lenore Taylor Anne-Marie Slaughter was the first woman director of policy planning for the US State Department. She's now a professor at Princeton University. So, she's obviously very smart.
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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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Beneath old political scores is $73 billion
Lenore Taylor He's the Coodabeen Champion of politics - coodabeen Prime Minister if he had challenged John Howard, or probably even if he'd just stuck around after the Coalition's 2007 defeat.
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Vision? Party leaders have eyes only for polls
Lenore Taylor Like the unwanted suitor who appears ever more pathetic the more he seeks to please, politicians appear to be despised by focus groups.
