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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Alarm over spectre of young, lost generation
Lenore Taylor In the tumble of news this week a report raising a very big question slipped by with almost no fuss.
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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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Labor lifts, Abbott shifts, credibility drifts
Lenore Taylor LABOR'S national secretary, George Wright, says Australian politics has entered the ''post-carbon'' phase.
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Dirty power generators emerge smelling of roses
Lenore Taylor A FIGHT over compensation to brown coal generators almost scuttled the carbon tax last year - and more than a year later resentment about how much money the companies got still runs deep.
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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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War timed to shed light on surging power bills
Lenore Taylor There's nothing the media loves as much as a good rhetorical war. We've had culture wars. History wars. The particularly odious ''mummy wars''.
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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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Abbott has painted himself into several corners
Lenore Taylor THE fight over the car industry shows exactly why Tony Abbott doesn't want to explain where he will make his budget cuts.
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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.
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No light at the end of this tunnel
Lenore Taylor Here's a conversation starter for your candlelit party tonight. Is climate change just too hard for our politicians? There's strong evidence it might be.
