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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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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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.
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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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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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's economic feather knocks down Labor's record
Lenore Taylor Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s Press Club speech attacked the very point Labor sees as its greatest strength — economic management — armed with little more than rhetoric and previously announced...
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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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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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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.
