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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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.
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Billion-dollar industry spend? Make that a cut
Lenore Taylor Prime Minister Julia Gillard's $1 billion jobs package actually cuts at least half a billion dollars from the industry portfolio - money that can now go directly to salvaging other areas of Labor's...
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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.
Case of hard Labor - PM employs shock tactics to try to steer the debate her way
Lenore Taylor Julia Gillard was entering an election year without the usual benefits of incumbency, so she's taken a tactical risk to shake things up.
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Politicians never learn, and so they keep on promising
Lenore Taylor I f politicians learn one thing from this sorry Parliament it must surely be not to make promises they can't keep.
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MPs behaving badly - a year best forgotten
Lenore Taylor The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama.
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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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.
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.
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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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Class is in session, and a maths test is coming up
Lenore Taylor When the heads of the Catholic and independent school systems in NSW left a private meeting with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, the Education Minister, Peter Garrett, and a posse of NSW...
Tanner denies fanning leadership row as he closes political chapter
Lenore Taylor LINDSAY TANNER says his book criticising the Labor Party and the poll-driven ''panic'' that led to the coup against Kevin Rudd was not designed to help provoke another leadership change.
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Pugilistic Labor tries to land a blow as Abbott skips away
Lenore Taylor While everyone's been busy debating whether Tony Abbott's alleged pugilism is real or a fit-up by Labor ladies wielding handbags, it's been easy to overlook the fact that the next election campaign...
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All the poorer when you break the piggy bank
Lenore Taylor My son once earnestly told me if Aladdin's genie gave him one wish he'd ask for a magic piggy bank that filled itself up when he'd spent all his money. I said I wouldn't mind one of those myself.
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Who framed feminism?
Lenore Taylor Anne-Marie Slaughter was the first woman director of policy planning for the US State Department. She's now a professor at Princeton University. So, she's obviously very smart.
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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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Vision? Party leaders have eyes only for polls
Lenore Taylor Like the unwanted suitor who appears ever more pathetic the more he seeks to please, politicians appear to be despised by focus groups.
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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.
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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.
