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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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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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...
Labor's tricky deal became a Slipper-y slope
Lenore Taylor The danger for Labor is that this minority government will also be filed under ‘‘seemed like a good idea at the time’’ by the voters.
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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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Labor in need of shelter as bad weather closes in
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard was playing the audience perfectly at the press gallery's midwinter ball on Wednesday night, commiserating with journalists at both News Ltd and Fairfax as the media industry goes...
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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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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Skirmish is over but now comes the real challenge - persuading voters
Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD'S next job is to win the numbers on a much tougher battlefield - the public opinion polls.
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Toughened times in the United States of Tony
Lenore Taylor In the discontinued television series United States of Tara, Toni Collette played a woman who displayed different personalities when under stress.
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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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...
