Phillip Coorey
Phillip Coorey joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 2005 and is the paper's Chief Political Correspondent, based in Canberra. Previously he was the Political Editor for Adelaide's The Advertiser. He has been in the Canberrra Press Gallery since 1998, except for 2003 and 2004 when he was the New York correspondent for News Ltd.
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Abrasive Newman gives Labor a lift
Phillip Coorey Fancy an elected leader likening people's jobs to dog poo. Boil it down and that's what the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, did last Thursday during a rowdy debate over his plans to take the axe...
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Gillard's power play
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard is entering a critical phase for both her leadership and her government. Clearly she has decided to go on the front foot.
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Messy mining tax deal sealed in the early hours
Phillip Coorey Unsurprisingly, the government was able to find $100 million last night to soothe the concerns of the Greens and usher the mining tax through the House of Representatives at 2.42am.
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Greens held cards on mining tax but chose protest over action
Phillip Coorey Later today, if all goes to plan, the Senate will pass the legislation for the minerals resources rent tax, enabling it to start on July 1.
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After Bligh, the deluge: Gillard's own day of reckoning awaits her
Phillip Coorey If Julia Gillard were a coal miner, her canaries would not just be dead - they would be dead, buried and cremated.
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Labor hegemony may be dead but it's not all bad for Gillard
Phillip Coorey This Friday, the Labor government will find itself outnumbered for the first time in 4½ years in office.
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PM to bask in overseas glow as the knives sharpen at home
Phillip Coorey Sunday week, June 24, will mark the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's leadership coup over Kevin Rudd.
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Plenty of signs, none of them good for ALP
Phillip Coorey THE backlash against the Brumby government in Victoria has surprised federal Labor, jeopardised its health reforms and paved the way for a thrashing of NSW Labor on March 26.
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Keys to Lodge lie in NSW or Queensland
Phillip Coorey This election, like its immediate predecessors, will be won and lost in NSW and Queensland.
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Rudd in no hurry to fix mining standoff
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's decision to skip the Minerals Council of Australia's annual shindig this week and attend a Labor Party function instead is a gesture both symbolic and pointed.
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Rudd may be the blip in selling mining tax
Phillip Coorey The government's penchant for acronyms has reached the stage where even the opposition is struggling to keep up.
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A precious commodity called unity goes West
Phillip Coorey The refusal by the West Australian Premier, Colin Barnett, to cede a third of his GST revenue to Kevin Rudd to pay for health reform contained an element of parochialism.
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Managing Joyce hard task for either side
Phillip Coorey The finance portfolio has been maligned and overhyped in recent decades. The Coalition started it in 1996 by labelling the $10 billion budget deficit inherited from Labor as the ''Beazley black...
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Turnbull tortured by his own party
Phillip Coorey You really have to wonder about the Liberal Party. Only weeks after Peter Costello anoints the Opposition spokesman on health, Peter Dutton, as a future leader, and days after Malcolm Turnbull and...
