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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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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Council seeks consensus on the big questions
Lenore Taylor WHEN the Business Council of Australia calls for a ''new accord'' it doesn't mean another Bob Hawke-inspired trade-off between wages and inflation.
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Alarm over spectre of young, lost generation
Lenore Taylor In the tumble of news this week a report raising a very big question slipped by with almost no fuss.
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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.
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Scrimping and scraping is a necessary evil for balance
Lenore Taylor We got short-term budget fiddles, but also some important long-term change. The midyear forecasts show Australia's ''shift to thrift'' is starting, and for at least some of the right reasons.
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Hold on to your bonnets for the new Downton Abbott
Lenore Taylor It was a blitzkrieg of love, an admiration avalanche. Margie Abbott, flanked by Tony, sitting close on the couch on the Today show, pictured walking the cute dog and lazing on the grass, alongside...
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Promises, promises, now it's time to do the sums
Lenore Taylor Like most things in our sorry political discourse, the debate over the alarming discrepancy between what politicians are promising to spend and the money we have to pay for it is being conducted as a...
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Political tweeters may troll too close to home
Lenore Taylor Suddenly, politicians of all persuasions have begun worrying that we need to ''do something'' about ''trolls'' and the misuse of social media.
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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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Rio: no progress at the top, but a bit on the side
Lenore Taylor Since the first Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago, Brazil's population has grown by 50 million and its economy has also grown strongly, at least until this year.
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Abbott has painted himself into several corners
Lenore Taylor THE fight over the car industry shows exactly why Tony Abbott doesn't want to explain where he will make his budget cuts.
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Plenty of promises, but not much delivery
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard talks a lot about the national disability insurance scheme.
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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.
