Lenore Taylor
Lenore Taylor is Guardian Australia's editor. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award for excellence in press gallery journalism. She co-authored a book, Shitstorm, on the Rudd government's response to the global economic crisis
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The question isn't which services to privatise but whether to privatiseIf the Coalition wants better services, not just cheaper ones, it should step back from its Productivity Commission brief and consider users’ best interests
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Beyond Hanson and Hinch: politicians' first speeches are a tonic for the jaded voterLook past the attention-seeking orations from Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch to find heartfelt words from new MPs that will restore faith in politics
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Pauline Hanson is back, and it's still just as hard to counter her rhetoric with factsIt’s 20 years since Hanson gave her first speech in the lower house with a string of complaints. Now she’s probably preparing for her first speech as a senator
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Gaping chasm between Coalition's climate mantra and the real debateLike the emperor with no clothes, Josh Frydenberg is continuing the grand parade, insisting that Australia is making a successful transition
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Climate authority split is no surprise – Australia has fought the same battle for 10 yearsAustralia’s climate debate is dominated by the the clash between what is necessary and what is possible, but the new report might permit a compromise
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Coalition's policies go around in circles instead of finding the sensible centreThere’s a lot of screeching about looming trillion dollar deficits and a lot of blowing smoke but the government is making very little progress
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Dutton blames Nauru crisis on everything but his rigid policyImmigration minister leaves no room at all to take a softer stand on settling refugees, thereby turning a difficult situation into an intractable impasse
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Axing clean energy supplement has barely caused a ripple, but it shouldAlthough the amounts appear insignificant, the cuts in payments to new welfare recipients will hit hard for the most disadvantaged Australians
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Election showed voters want something authentic – Australian politics live podcastLenore Taylor, Katharine Murphy and Gabrielle Chan discuss why Australian voters rejected Malcolm Turnbull and supported candidates who meant what they said
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Turnbull and Shorten court independents with hung parliament in playAustralian election 2016: prime minister is ‘quietly confident’ of winning an overall majority but Labor sources say hung parliament is most likely outcome
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What happens if we end up with a hung parliament? – videoLenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy examine the potential for a hung parliament with the final result of the Australian election remaining uncertain
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Turnbull contacts independents he warned would be ‘chaotic disaster’Malcolm Turnbull spends Sunday morning making calls to seek support for potential minority government
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Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy on a 'strange, upside-down' election – Behind the Lines podcastJoin an all-star cast of Guardian contributors as we unpack how election night went
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Malcolm Turnbull's on rocky ground even while he pitches stabilityThe prime minister’s promise of a stable economic and political future with the Coalition is one he really can’t guarantee to keep
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Malcolm Turnbull to claim high ground in final election set piece speechPrime minister addresses the National Press Club with a speech reminiscent of the one he made after defeating Tony Abbott
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Malcolm Turnbull's tax cuts and savings likely to face Senate roadblockCoalition unlikely to win minor party and independent backing for superannuation and family benefit changes or company tax cuts, a Guardian Australia survey shows
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So what will the Coalition, Labor and the Greens do about climate change? A video explainerLenore Taylor explains what each of the major Australian parties say they will do to tackle the problem of greenhouse emissions
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At election campaign's 11th hour, sneaky tactics trump credible argumentsThe Coalition suddenly retrieves welfare savings from the back of the couch and Bill Shorten adds a postscript to his final pitch at the National Press Club
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Labor announces costings as Turnbull speaks at campaign launch – as it happenedPrime minister uses global uncertainty following Brexit to make case for Coalition’s economic management as Greens launch their campaign and Labor holds a save Medicare rally. All the developments with Katharine Murphy, live
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Malcolm Turnbull is betting on stability. But what if voters cannot be sure of anything?The prime minister’s focus at the Liberal launch on the uncertainty unleashed by Brexit was predictable, but it carries risks for his own strategy too
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Politics Live podcast: what's good for Australia's economy?Recorded live in Melbourne this episode looks at the different ways the major parties see the economic debate this election
Coalition needs to abandon poverty politicking and fix its own 'welfare mentality'