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.
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Coalition set to oppose Oakeshott code for parliamentary behaviour
Lenore Taylor TONY ABBOTT might have described as ''elegant'' Malcolm Turnbull's speech critiquing the quality of Australia's political debate, but the Coalition is set to oppose a parliamentary ''code of...
Media tread fine line when tribes go to war
Lenore Taylor It was yet another week when politicians and the media appeared consumed with talking to, and about, each other.
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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.
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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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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Political tweeters may troll too close to home
Lenore Taylor Suddenly, politicians of all persuasions have begun worrying that we need to ''do something'' about ''trolls'' and the misuse of social media.
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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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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Don't just do something, stand there - Gillard's Zen defence
Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD has decided to fight Kevin Rudd's passive aggressive leadership campaign with a passive ''do nothing'' defence.
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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...
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No gleam of souped-up ideas among the lemons
Lenore Taylor In the best tradition of the bush mechanics, both Labor and the Coalition are making do with some very dilapidated policy vehicles.
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Taking a Slipper to the mob at question time
Lenore Taylor I've endured many grievous challenges to my powers of concentration over the years. There was double maths on a Friday afternoon in a Brisbane classroom with a fine view of the Cloudland Ballroom,...
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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.
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Robin Hood budget will give Abbott no merriment
Lenore Taylor Trained observer that I am, I reckon the Gillard government wants this to be seen as a ''Robin Hood'' budget - designed to make a ''Labor values'' political virtue of the deep cuts necessary to...
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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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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.
Gillard's grip on power
Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.
