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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Boycott threats are just hot air
Phillip Coorey One morning during the 2010 election campaign, a federal minister awoke to hear Alan Jones's latest sermon on why listeners should not vote Labor.
Punching on with a popular perception
Phillip Coorey One reason the Coalition does not like the recollection of a former university student contained in David Marr's Quarterly Essay is because it reinforces the perception, be it true or otherwise, that...
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No end to the relentless pursuit
Phillip Coorey The Craig Thomson saga is like a bushfire sucking all the oxygen out of the air. When Anthony Albanese despaired this morning that in the current climate, ''there is nothing that is not about...
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PM returns to disorder in the House and trouble over Rinehart deal
Phillip Coorey When Julia Gillard arrived home from Chicago on Wednesday morning and saw Anthony Albanese, she made an immediate observation: ''You look tired.''
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Why the Coalition is on a winner - it's all about individual pain
Phillip Coorey W hen John Howard told Parliament on March 26, 2007, ''working families in Australia have never been better off'', he was entitled to boast.
PM must reward thumping endorsement with better performance
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard's caucus has backed her emphatically. Now she must return the favour.
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Gillard can rearrange the backdrop but the outlook remains the same
Phillip Coorey Last Thursday, before flying from Istanbul to Ankara, and then home, Julia Gillard held the final press conference of her trip abroad.
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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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Labor on a steady path to same-sex weddings
Phillip Coorey At the hideously-confected affair that masqueraded as the 2009 ALP national conference, one rare area of real contention was gay marriage.
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Clowns creating a circus for Rudd
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd's decision not to speak to Kristina Keneally until late on Saturday afternoon - and then only because the newspapers were inquiring as to why no call had been made - was deliberate.
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Rivals poised to give Hockey stick
Phillip Coorey Last Thursday night, as the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, flew to the Caribbean and senior Liberals started leaping off the front bench like lemmings, Labor MPs and their staff had a knees-up in...
