Phillip Coorey
Phillip Coorey joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 2005 and is the paper's Chief Political Correspondent, based in Canberra. Previously he was the Political Editor for Adelaide's The Advertiser. He has been in the Canberrra Press Gallery since 1998, except for 2003 and 2004 when he was the New York correspondent for News Ltd.
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Boats policy comes full circle
Phillip Coorey There is now barely a difference between Labor and Coalition policy on asylum seekers.
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Security Council bid long overdue
Phillip Coorey When Julia Gillard touches down in New York this morning, she will be on a mission from Rudd. It was on a Saturday afternoon, 4 1/2 years ago, during his first major overseas odyssey as prime...
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Rudd's special status makes every move suspect
Phillip Coorey According to Kevin Rudd's numbers men, the former prime minister is about 10 votes shy of Julia Gillard.
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Jakarta on Abbott's to-do list but no one has told the Indonesians
Phillip Coorey Should Tony Abbott win the next election, his first week in office, by any measure, is going to be a busy one.
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PM returns to disorder in the House and trouble over Rinehart deal
Phillip Coorey When Julia Gillard arrived home from Chicago on Wednesday morning and saw Anthony Albanese, she made an immediate observation: ''You look tired.''
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Abbott's gaffe won't be forgotten
Phillip Coorey COALITION MPs and frontbenchers circled wagons around Tony Abbott yesterday following his ''shit happens'' gaffe but, privately many expressed concern about how much damage the incident might have...
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Spare those organising security from more work
Phillip Coorey THE squabble between Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard over Afghanistan misses a key point. It would have been a lot easier on the military had they travelled to Afghanistan together.
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Gillard on the go is being undersold
Phillip Coorey Julia Gillard will spend about 55 hours in the air and 18 on the ground just to attend the NATO summit in Lisbon. She arrives home this morning from a week overseas and heads off again on Thursday.
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Gillard is not for turning on IR
Phillip Coorey Tony Abbott has a new line that maintains his theme that Labor is a puppet of the Greens. ''Labor is in government but the Greens are in power,'' the Opposition Leader said on the eve of today's...
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War on the bad guys takes a malign turn
Phillip Coorey Standing in the cockpit of the C-130 Hercules as it began its rapid descent to the Tarin Kowt airstrip, the Chief of Defence Force, Angus Houston, was keen to make an observation.
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An election-year fix: easy to implement, easy to discard
Phillip Coorey AFTER months of steadfast refusal to submit to pressure over asylum seekers and do something draconian, the Rudd Government has caved in.
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Patience becomes a PM on the move
Phillip Coorey Kevin Rudd arrived home early this morning from six days in Afghanistan, India and Singapore. He will be home for less than a fortnight before jetting off to Trinidad and Tobago for the three-day...
