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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More to budgets than DNA
Lenore Taylor Perhaps all the analysis of Julia Gillard's motivation for naming the election date has over-complicated things.
Analysis
Tax plan a sop to Katter after hung parliament
Lenore Taylor The Coalition is considering offering $10,000 rebates to taxpayers in ''selected'' remote regions to boost their economies - a plan first mooted in negotiations with independent Bob Katter after the...
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Political death roll promises all bets off for major parties
Lenore Taylor Being very much at the ''are we there yet?'' end of this year's long and gruelling political journey, it's getting harder to laugh at the more extreme doses of daily advice we get from followers on...
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It's all well to boast but tall stories don't fit hard facts
Lenore Taylor For most people this is the season of menu planning and internet shopping, but in Canberra it's the season to road test themes for the 2013 election year.
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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...
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Political deadlock may sink the most important finding
Lenore Taylor IT IS almost total political surrender.
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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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Beneath old political scores is $73 billion
Lenore Taylor He's the Coodabeen Champion of politics - coodabeen Prime Minister if he had challenged John Howard, or probably even if he'd just stuck around after the Coalition's 2007 defeat.
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Many obstacles on the road to nanny nirvana
Lenore Taylor For the first year after maternity leave both of my children were cared for by a nanny. It cost us a bomb and we couldn't get government rebates.
Let's remember what Peter Slipper is charged with, and what he is not
Lenore Taylor If every MP who has ever had an affair, or ever tried to have an affair, was forced to resign, there would be some empty seats on both sides of federal parliament.
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The Coalition and Labor both tax our memory bank
Lenore Taylor The truth is there has been long term bipartisan support for electorally popular sugar hits for families. The Coalition likens this one to Labor's ''cash splash'' stimulus payments.
