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.
Media tread fine line when tribes go to war
Lenore Taylor It was yet another week when politicians and the media appeared consumed with talking to, and about, each other.
Reality show bathed in myths and stereotyping
Lenore Taylor It occupied almost a week of political ''analysis'', filled acres of newsprint and hours of airtime, but the truth is the ''westfest'' at Rooty Hill changed very little.
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Facts flee as politicians take low road on asylum
Lenore Taylor Here's what Scott Morrison could have said in his interview with 2UE's Jason Morrison on Wednesday.
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Tax plan a sop to Katter after hung parliament
Lenore Taylor The Coalition is considering offering $10,000 rebates to taxpayers in ''selected'' remote regions to boost their economies - a plan first mooted in negotiations with independent Bob Katter after the...
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Thought bubbles belie Coalition's 'ready to govern' claim
Lenore Taylor For a party that has been begging for an election ever since we had the last one, and insisting that it is ready to govern, some of the Coalition's policy ideas look decidedly underdone.
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It may not be Watergate but more explanation is needed
Lenore Taylor Within about 16 hours of James Ashby lodging his sexual harassment claim against Peter Slipper in April, Tony Abbott was dead certain of its implications for the Speaker and also for the government.
Dogged Abbott caught in slips
Lenore Taylor The real problem is not that Tony Abbott hasn't read the judgment in which the Federal Court threw out the sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper.
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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.
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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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Bishop bluster loses wind in an obvious absence of evidence
Lenore Taylor JULIE BISHOP started the day alleging the Prime Minister was like a bank robber's knowing accomplice who had benefited from the heist - a Bonnie to her then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson's, Clyde.
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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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Trapped in the worst of both worlds, Labor gets tougher still
Lenore Taylor As Chris Bowen announced yet another toughening of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, a reporter from Al Jazeera asked the Immigration Minister if he was ''aware of the reputation for...
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If they allow a little compassionate labour, this might work
Lenore Taylor WHILE Australia ponders how to extricate itself from this worst-of-all-worlds position on asylum policy, the Coalition's suggestion that refugees on Labor's bridging visas should be required to do...
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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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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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Airport debacle stuck in eternal holding pattern
Lenore Taylor Next time you hear a politician banging on about productivity consider this. And scoff.
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The moment of truth finally arrives
Lenore Taylor AFTER so much pain, so many shocking revelations, so many years of thankless campaigning by the betrayed and so much resistance by the accused, the fight to expose the full horrible truth about...
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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.
