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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.

Wider reform good for democracy

Lenore Taylor The latest financial disclosures from political parties show exactly why the electoral reforms being discussed by the major parties are sorely needed.

Why the alms race must go public

Lenore Taylor The latest financial disclosures from political parties show exactly why the electoral reforms being discussed by the major parties are sorely needed.

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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.

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Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed

Lenore Taylor After two bitter years, Australia's political tug of war appears to have reached that frozen moment when the teams have struggled back to almost even pegging and no one is sure which way the...

Let's trawl the science, not public opinion

Lenore Taylor If it turns out that AFMA was right and supertrawlers pose no extra threat, good government would dictate that they should be allowed to operate.

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Long, bitter stand-off casts shameful shadow

Lenore Taylor In a little over a week when politicians return to Canberra it will be time to face a decision they have been squibbing for almost a year.

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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Abbott sweats on ALP loss to repeal carbon tax

Lenore Taylor Sometimes it's the biggest things that politicians don't want to talk about.

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.

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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.

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Policy the first casualty in pollies' phoney war

Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott's budget reply was entirely rhetorical - when Julia Gillard told the Coalition leader he should leave the north shore and get out into the real world he thundered she was deliberately and...

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ETS off the agenda until late next term

LENORE TAYLOR THE Rudd government has shelved its emissions trading scheme for at least three years in a bid to defuse Tony Abbott's "great big new tax" attack in this year's election campaign.