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.
Peter Slipper and the high price of rushed judgment
Lenore Taylor Surely now it's time to take stock of how politics is being conducted.
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Mud, splat and tears on 'judgment day'
Lenore Taylor It was supposed to be Craig Thomson's ''judgment day''. Instead he told the parliament and the media they had no right to pass final judgment on anyone.
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Once again, scandal diverts from substance
Lenore Taylor Day one of Julia Gillard's "turn the torch on Tony" election year strategy was derailed by Labor's continued Health Services Union trauma.
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No one wins in abuse of the law, media and politics
Lenore Taylor This should be the time to pause for thought. After a year of scandal, sometimes substantive, sometimes driven by the Coalition's determination to claw down the minority government, this...
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Question so difficult Coalition can't hear
Lenore Taylor IT'S a classic way to avoid answering a question - pretend you've been asked a different one.
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It may not be Watergate but more explanation is needed
Lenore Taylor Within about 16 hours of James Ashby lodging his sexual harassment claim against Peter Slipper in April, Tony Abbott was dead certain of its implications for the Speaker and also for the government.
Dogged Abbott caught in slips
Lenore Taylor The real problem is not that Tony Abbott hasn't read the judgment in which the Federal Court threw out the sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper.
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Silly, but Tony stands by his man
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT looked silly saying he has been doing too many ''important things'' to read the Federal Court judgment that threw out the sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper.
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.
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Punch and Judy show that's destroying Labor
Lenore Taylor Labor's legitimacy crisis with the voting public is now infecting the party itself. Those backing Gillard and those backing Rudd don't just run down the rival candidate as being an inferior choice...
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No happy ending for this soap opera about power
Lenore Taylor The past few days in politics have been like the penultimate scene in a police drama. The main characters have finally come clean with the truth they have been withholding all this time, and the...
Unspeakable dilemma for a stumbling Labor
Lenore Taylor A farmer in western NSW told me last week he was a Nationals voter and his daughter ''used to'' vote Labor. ''I don't know what she's going to do now,'' he said. I asked him what he meant.
