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.
Abbott keeps clear of Fair Work challenge
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has again announced a policy designed in part to pick a fight with the Coalition.
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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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Time ticking for embattled Labor
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda.
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Something has to give - sooner or later
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda as previously strong supporters contemplate the desperate threat to both the Labor Party and the union movement posed by...
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Council seeks consensus on the big questions
Lenore Taylor WHEN the Business Council of Australia calls for a ''new accord'' it doesn't mean another Bob Hawke-inspired trade-off between wages and inflation.
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Pugilistic Labor tries to land a blow as Abbott skips away
Lenore Taylor While everyone's been busy debating whether Tony Abbott's alleged pugilism is real or a fit-up by Labor ladies wielding handbags, it's been easy to overlook the fact that the next election campaign...
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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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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.
