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.
Without hated red tape, we'd be in a bigger tangle
Lenore Taylor It's time to call out the incredible hypocrisy of politicians banging on about tape. And also the way politics is trumping policy on an almost daily basis.
Reforms are wounded, and the damage is self-inflicted
Lenore Taylor The government was last night trying to salvage some of its media reform laws in a last-minute compromise it hoped would provide political cover for its retreat on the rest.
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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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More to budgets than DNA
Lenore Taylor Perhaps all the analysis of Julia Gillard's motivation for naming the election date has over-complicated things.
Analysis
Tax plan a sop to Katter after hung parliament
Lenore Taylor The Coalition is considering offering $10,000 rebates to taxpayers in ''selected'' remote regions to boost their economies - a plan first mooted in negotiations with independent Bob Katter after the...
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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.
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Class is in session, and a maths test is coming up
Lenore Taylor When the heads of the Catholic and independent school systems in NSW left a private meeting with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, the Education Minister, Peter Garrett, and a posse of NSW...
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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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Coalition set to oppose Oakeshott code for parliamentary behaviour
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT might have described as ''elegant'' Malcolm Turnbull's speech critiquing the quality of Australia's political debate, but the Coalition is set to oppose a parliamentary ''code of...
Abbott plays the triangle to create a clever discord
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott's Coalition has been executing the political manoeuvre of triangulation with a skill that would impress the tactic's originator, Bill Clinton's former adviser Dick Morris.
MPs stand up for their beliefs, and fall down on their duty to protect lives
Lenore Taylor The Australian Parliament is failing us. It is putting politicking ahead of human life.
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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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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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No gleam of souped-up ideas among the lemons
Lenore Taylor In the best tradition of the bush mechanics, both Labor and the Coalition are making do with some very dilapidated policy vehicles.
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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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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.
Political feeding frenzy a plague on both houses
Lenore Taylor The fetid cloud of hypocrisy rising from our federal Parliament must surely by now be visible from space.
Gillard's grip on power
Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.
