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.
Pyne caught red-handed with the airbrush
Lenore Taylor Christopher Pyne had his airbrush out yesterday – erasing the entire global financial crisis from Australia's economic history.
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Longing for grown ups to cut out the silliness
Lenore Taylor Tony Abbott has access to more focus-group polling than I do, and he's clearly doing something right because he still looks like romping home at the next election.
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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...
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The pain behind plan by Abbott's Mr Fix-It
Lenore Taylor The Gillard government believes its last, best hope of survival will come when Tony Abbott finally reveals how and where he will cut spending.
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Abbott needs magic to pull surplus out of a hat
Lenore Taylor The rest of the world started 2012 transfixed by the unfolding euro zone debt crisis. In Australia, we started with some confusion about whether the last global financial crisis happened at all.
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Mouth that launched 1000 slips
Lenore Taylor Barnaby Joyce has much tougher things to learn right now than just avoiding bad taste jokes about using Productivity Commission reports as toilet paper.
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No light at the end of this tunnel
Lenore Taylor Here's a conversation starter for your candlelit party tonight. Is climate change just too hard for our politicians? There's strong evidence it might be.
