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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Long, bitter stand-off casts shameful shadow
Lenore Taylor In a little over a week when politicians return to Canberra it will be time to face a decision they have been squibbing for almost a year.
Without hated red tape, we'd be in a bigger tangle
Lenore Taylor It's time to call out the incredible hypocrisy of politicians banging on about tape. And also the way politics is trumping policy on an almost daily basis.
Reality show bathed in myths and stereotyping
Lenore Taylor It occupied almost a week of political ''analysis'', filled acres of newsprint and hours of airtime, but the truth is the ''westfest'' at Rooty Hill changed very little.
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Question so difficult Coalition can't hear
Lenore Taylor IT'S a classic way to avoid answering a question - pretend you've been asked a different one.
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Airport debacle stuck in eternal holding pattern
Lenore Taylor Next time you hear a politician banging on about productivity consider this. And scoff.
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Take a reality check with a walk on the other side
Lenore Taylor In a world where reality television has a powerful impact on reality, maybe a TV show would focus attention on the real situation of Australia's unemployed.
Labor's big-ticket promises may leave Coalition in a bind
Lenore Taylor If Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey sound like they are talking about different budgets when each shouts that the other is digging a "black hole", that's because they (sort of) are.
Perspective the first casualty of budget backlash
Lenore Taylor We go through this screaming match every time the government announces budget cuts, but it seems more hysterical than usual this time.
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Grizzling goes on over the baby bombshell
Lenore Taylor A brief detour through recent Coalition history reveals that Labor's campaign to paint Tony Abbott as a ''sexist'', 1950s-style Leave it to Beaver conservative was an undercurrent even in the...
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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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Toughened times in the United States of Tony
Lenore Taylor In the discontinued television series United States of Tara, Toni Collette played a woman who displayed different personalities when under stress.
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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.
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Airport chaos imminent but the cockpit's vacant
Lenore Taylor The failure to build a second Sydney airport is a decades-long story of political myopia and cowardice from both major parties.
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Abbott makes a con into a pro and backtracks on education promises
Lenore Taylor In trying to sidestep the political tripwires in Labor's budget, the Coalition has got itself into a tangle.
