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.
Gillard throws a punch, but Abbott ducks
Lenore Taylor What to do when your opponent is presenting the smallest of small targets - and successfully getting away with it - and the electorate has stopped listening to you? Answer: Pick a fight.
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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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.
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Politicians never learn, and so they keep on promising
Lenore Taylor I f politicians learn one thing from this sorry Parliament it must surely be not to make promises they can't keep.
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MPs behaving badly - a year best forgotten
Lenore Taylor The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama.
Pyne caught red-handed with the airbrush
Lenore Taylor Christopher Pyne had his airbrush out yesterday – erasing the entire global financial crisis from Australia's economic history.
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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.
Labor's big-ticket promises may leave Coalition in a bind
Lenore Taylor If Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey sound like they are talking about different budgets when each shouts that the other is digging a "black hole", that's because they (sort of) are.
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Scrimping and scraping is a necessary evil for balance
Lenore Taylor We got short-term budget fiddles, but also some important long-term change. The midyear forecasts show Australia's ''shift to thrift'' is starting, and for at least some of the right reasons.
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Grizzling goes on over the baby bombshell
Lenore Taylor A brief detour through recent Coalition history reveals that Labor's campaign to paint Tony Abbott as a ''sexist'', 1950s-style Leave it to Beaver conservative was an undercurrent even in the...
Tanner denies fanning leadership row as he closes political chapter
Lenore Taylor LINDSAY TANNER says his book criticising the Labor Party and the poll-driven ''panic'' that led to the coup against Kevin Rudd was not designed to help provoke another leadership change.
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Promises, promises, now it's time to do the sums
Lenore Taylor Like most things in our sorry political discourse, the debate over the alarming discrepancy between what politicians are promising to spend and the money we have to pay for it is being conducted as a...
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All the poorer when you break the piggy bank
Lenore Taylor My son once earnestly told me if Aladdin's genie gave him one wish he'd ask for a magic piggy bank that filled itself up when he'd spent all his money. I said I wouldn't mind one of those myself.
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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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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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Plenty of promises, but not much delivery
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard talks a lot about the national disability insurance scheme.
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Coalition shies away from the devil in the details
Lenore Taylor JOE HOCKEY has begun the process of explaining that the Coalition cannot, in fact, be all things to all people. But only in the most gentle and generalised of ways.
