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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Big dreams not just the hat talking
Phillip Coorey Last Wednesday, as the government and the opposition were busy tearing out each other's throats over events 20 years ago, Bob Katter provided the relief.
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Solving a problem like Bernardi nets trifecta
Phillip Coorey TONY ABBOTT hates ill-discipline. Time and again he warns against it, telling his charges the aim is to have people talking about Labor, not the Coalition. Make Labor the story.
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Team players get top jobs but mavericks make a difference
Phillip Coorey About three years ago, Barnaby Joyce had a half-hearted crack at replacing Warren Truss as the leader of the Nationals.
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Both sides respect Beazley, even if he's telling home truths
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott was not kind to Kim Beazley when they were both in Parliament. ''Sanctimonious windbag'' and ''great big bellowing cow'' were two of the more memorable insults that Abbott, then a Howard...
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Liberals can walk policy tightrope while Labor circus is in town
Phillip Coorey As a follower of Irish politics, the Liberal Party's federal director, Brian Loughnane, is a fan of the acronym GUBU.
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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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Rivers will die of thirst as the arguments get wetter
Phillip Coorey Just over a year ago, Malcolm Turnbull returned from London and a meeting with the Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, to declare he was no longer prepared to lead a party that refused to take...
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Sales talk begins as election moves into focus
Phillip Coorey With Julia Gillard expected to call the election today, Tony Abbott has tried to define the contest as being about the need to get rid of a bad government full of flawed characters.
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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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Libs fear Joyce will overpower Hockey
Phillip Coorey ''This is going to be a disaster,'' said one MP. ''Great retail politician? Sure, but so was Pauline Hanson''.
Robb's rousing words trigger chain reaction
Phillip Coorey John Howard's old adviser, Grahame Morris, picked it on Monday night.
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Libs seek unity in a cool climate
Phillip Coorey When Liberals discuss the key reasons why they lost the 2007 election, a monumental failure to read the public mood on climate change is always mentioned.
