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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Teams lining up early for a Coalition victory
Lenore Taylor The wildness sweeping Australian politics is fuelled by the fact that all the players now appear not just to be expecting a Coalition victory, but to be factoring it in as a certainty and...
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Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed
Lenore Taylor After two bitter years, Australia's political tug of war appears to have reached that frozen moment when the teams have struggled back to almost even pegging and no one is sure which way the...
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Abbott's axe being blunted by Gillard's late fightback on tax
Lenore Taylor Ever so slowly, Julia Gillard is making up ground in the great fight over electricity prices - the defining battle of this Parliament.
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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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Dirty power generators emerge smelling of roses
Lenore Taylor A FIGHT over compensation to brown coal generators almost scuttled the carbon tax last year - and more than a year later resentment about how much money the companies got still runs deep.
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Lack of carnage Abbott's inconvenient fiscal truth
Lenore Taylor Perhaps Tony Abbott needs to send out a search party or post a reward because, bafflingly, his carbon tax wrecking ball appears to have gone missing.
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War timed to shed light on surging power bills
Lenore Taylor There's nothing the media loves as much as a good rhetorical war. We've had culture wars. History wars. The particularly odious ''mummy wars''.
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Electricity bills: be afraid, but not of the obvious
Lenore Taylor In every good horror movie the thing you think is going to be scary doesn't turn out to be the thing you should really fear.
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Taking a Slipper to the mob at question time
Lenore Taylor I've endured many grievous challenges to my powers of concentration over the years. There was double maths on a Friday afternoon in a Brisbane classroom with a fine view of the Cloudland Ballroom,...
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Abbott sweats on ALP loss to repeal carbon tax
Lenore Taylor Sometimes it's the biggest things that politicians don't want to talk about.
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Decision that shattered faith in PM
Lenore Taylor It was the decision that seemed to snap voters' faith in Kevin Rudd. Perhaps a final straw. Straight after the government announced it was deferring an emissions trading scheme until 2013, graphs of...
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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.
