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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Teams lining up early for a Coalition victory
Lenore Taylor The wildness sweeping Australian politics is fuelled by the fact that all the players now appear not just to be expecting a Coalition victory, but to be factoring it in as a certainty and...
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Facts flee as politicians take low road on asylum
Lenore Taylor Here's what Scott Morrison could have said in his interview with 2UE's Jason Morrison on Wednesday.
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Time ticking for embattled Labor
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda.
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Something has to give - sooner or later
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda as previously strong supporters contemplate the desperate threat to both the Labor Party and the union movement posed by...
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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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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.
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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...
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.
Abbott plays the triangle to create a clever discord
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott's Coalition has been executing the political manoeuvre of triangulation with a skill that would impress the tactic's originator, Bill Clinton's former adviser Dick Morris.
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Hot air and carbon tax claims
Lenore Taylor LABOR was demonstrating ''breathtaking arrogance'' by refusing to countenance the repeal of the carbon tax under an Abbott government, the Coalition said yesterday.
MPs stand up for their beliefs, and fall down on their duty to protect lives
Lenore Taylor The Australian Parliament is failing us. It is putting politicking ahead of human life.
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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...
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Unions go neutral as poll hopes dry up
Lenore Taylor IN THE showdown in February with the former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard had almost unanimous support from MPs who owe their position to the union movement.
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.
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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...
The powerful spin of Abbott's wrecking ball
Lenore Taylor Bill Kelty had some advice for the labour movement this week. He was puzzling over why Labor seemed to have lost hope and trust and a sense of purpose.
Gillard's grip on power
Lenore Taylor Labor's strategy to hold on to power is quietly producing results, writes Lenore Taylor.
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Decision that shattered faith in PM
Lenore Taylor It was the decision that seemed to snap voters' faith in Kevin Rudd. Perhaps a final straw. Straight after the government announced it was deferring an emissions trading scheme until 2013, graphs of...
