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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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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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.
HSU warned to clean up or clear out
Phillip Coorey FAIR Work Australia will release its findings against Craig Thomson next month, while his old union, the Health Services Union, faces threats of deregistration or being placed in the hands of...
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Thomson has no words to lance boil that will ache until election day
Phillip Coorey The question that will be left hanging after Craig Thomson makes his statement to Parliament today is how did the whole saga get this far?
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PM's cunning words get Labor talking
Phillip Coorey JULIA GILLARD says the government needs an equal mix of courage and cunning if it is to prevail, in remarks that have been construed by some as pushing back at criticisms levelled by the party elder...
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Abbott faces battle telling NSW Liberals what to do
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott will have no quibble with a finding in part two of Labor's post-election review, the unreleased section that deals with the election campaign.
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CBA and its cronies can bank on the wails
Phillip Coorey Not so long ago, the government was singing the praises of the Commonwealth Bank and its boss, Ralph Norris. It was April last year and the nation was in the grip of the global financial crisis.
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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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Clowns creating a circus for Rudd
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's decision not to speak to Kristina Keneally until late on Saturday afternoon - and then only because the newspapers were inquiring as to why no call had been made - was deliberate.
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Another job for a Tory, but Costello will have to help Labor look good
Phillip Coorey At the conclusion of the weekly cabinet meeting a fortnight ago, a minister, mostly in jest - but not entirely - dismissively slid a file along the table after a quick perusal.
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Costello's sharp tongue may never taste the milk of human kindness
Phillip Coorey When Labor stalwarts speak of the debt the party owes Kim Beazley, you need look no further than the state of the federal Liberal Party to understand why.
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Turnbull tortured by his own party
Phillip Coorey You really have to wonder about the Liberal Party. Only weeks after Peter Costello anoints the Opposition spokesman on health, Peter Dutton, as a future leader, and days after Malcolm Turnbull and...
