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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Bishop bluster loses wind in an obvious absence of evidence
Lenore Taylor JULIE BISHOP started the day alleging the Prime Minister was like a bank robber's knowing accomplice who had benefited from the heist - a Bonnie to her then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson's, Clyde.
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Longing for grown ups to cut out the silliness
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott has access to more focus-group polling than I do, and he's clearly doing something right because he still looks like romping home at the next election.
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In the court of public opinion, PM's case is holding sway
Lenore Taylor THERE is now something like a formulated charge in the long-running saga of the Prime Minister and the alleged thief who was her lover. But making a charge is not the same as proving it.
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The moment of truth finally arrives
Lenore Taylor AFTER so much pain, so many shocking revelations, so many years of thankless campaigning by the betrayed and so much resistance by the accused, the fight to expose the full horrible truth about...
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Take a reality check with a walk on the other side
Lenore Taylor In a world where reality television has a powerful impact on reality, maybe a TV show would focus attention on the real situation of Australia's unemployed.
Dear 2GB, Here are a few ''facts'' you might like to check
Lenore Taylor Dear 2GB fact checker, Here are a few ''facts'' you might like to check. For starters.
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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...
Let's trawl the science, not public opinion
Lenore Taylor If it turns out that AFMA was right and supertrawlers pose no extra threat, good government would dictate that they should be allowed to operate.
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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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One fight the Coalition will shy away from
Lenore Taylor SCRAPE away the rhetoric and Labor's Fair Work Act seems to be neither the sure-fire productivity killer business has made it out to be, nor definitely in the clear.
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Long, bitter stand-off casts shameful shadow
Lenore Taylor In a little over a week when politicians return to Canberra it will be time to face a decision they have been squibbing for almost a year.
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Labor boxed in over the price of pies and pizzas
Lenore Taylor If you needed any more evidence that our national political debate is warped way out of shape, consider this.
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Abbott's economic feather knocks down Labor's record
Lenore Taylor Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s Press Club speech attacked the very point Labor sees as its greatest strength — economic management — armed with little more than rhetoric and previously announced...
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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.
The powerful spin of Abbott's wrecking ball
Lenore Taylor Bill Kelty had some advice for the labour movement this week. He was puzzling over why Labor seemed to have lost hope and trust and a sense of purpose.
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Mud, splat and tears on 'judgment day'
Lenore Taylor It was supposed to be Craig Thomson's ''judgment day''. Instead he told the parliament and the media they had no right to pass final judgment on anyone.
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Jittery leaders put saving their skins above saving the planet
Lenore Taylor VOTERS in this year's election concerned about climate change will have a short-term choice between dumb and dumber.
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Tough but not politically suicidal
Lenore Taylor Oh, but Wayne Swan must hanker after the grand gestures, the lofty rhetoric, the gasp-inducing figures of the budgets of old - Paul Keating's ''bringing home the bacon'' in 1988 or Peter...
