Katharine Murphy
Katharine Murphy is national affairs correspondent at The Age. She has been reporting on federal politics for more than a decade, starting at The Australian Financial Review, where she was Canberra chief of staff from 2001 to 2004, and moving to The Australian as a specialist writer from 2004 to 2006. She joined The Age in 2006. In 2008, she won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism.
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Alarm on the set of Survivor
Katharine Murphy The tribe votes in Queensland and Labor can't escape premonitions of who will be next to leave the island.
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Hunt off-target with Abbott defence
Katharine Murphy What Greg Hunt’s said in the "target" row is a complete distortion of the facts.
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Only together can Labor excavate its way out of this hole
Katharine Murphy Julia Gillard's bid to lead from the front signals a new phase for the party.
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It ain't easy being Brown
Katharine Murphy The Greens' charismatic leader has a legacy to protect and he's not planning on going down the Democrats' path.
The truth about sex and power in Australia
Katharine Murphy One hundred and ten years after the first women contested a Commonwealth election, only one-quarter of members in the House of Representatives and a little more than one-third of Senators are women.
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Feeding frenzy of news
Katharine Murphy Calls for regulation of the print media take too little account of the revolution in which journalists are now immersed.
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Dogfight we had to have
Katharine Murphy SO WHAT now for Labor? What to do in the wreckage of all the fighting words?
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Gloves are off as tussle for the top begins
Katharine Murphy SLICK operation, the Rudd family.
Rudd's audacious pitch
Katharine Murphy Kevin Rudd appears to have launched an audacious pitch for the Prime Ministership with a dramatic resignation from his foreign affairs portfolio in Washington.
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Reverse ferret at large in caucus power play
Katharine Murphy The editor of Britain's The Sun coined the phrase 'reverse ferret' as an abrupt change of position.
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Enough of this Labor madness, Julia. It's time to bring it on
Katharine Murphy The PM should do the grown-up thing and spill the leadership.
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It's a tale of two transitions as the economy takes centre stage
Katharine Murphy THE ABC's Four Corners program tonight will keep the spot fires of the Labor leadership story burning - despite the fact that Julia Gillard managed to open the 2012 parliamentary year with a solid...
Ferguson grants extension for contentious power plant project
Katharine Murphy Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will this morning throw a lifeline to a contentious coal-fired power plant project in Victoria's Latrobe Valley that is subject to legal challenge from state...
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The Labor story will end badly
Katharine Murphy Gillard may fall. Rudd may return. But the sense is that nothing can save the ALP from itself.
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Dancing with the peculiar Kulia leaves Labor in limbo mode
Katharine Murphy Rudd's government in exile is gathering considerable momentum alongside Gillard's minority.
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Hard-working pollies deserving, but fair pay must bring fair play
Katharine Murphy Good politicians toil harder than anyone else, often around the clock, and earn every dollar they get.
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All nuclear bets are off
Katharine Murphy The government is opposed to nuclear energy, absolutely, no question. Except when 'contingency planning'.
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The ghost of Howard hovers over Gillard's marriage vow
Katharine Murphy Odd perhaps to note this, given all the eulogising that Labor conferences deliver about Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam and the rest, but an interloper ghost hovers over this weekend's federal ALP...
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'Slipperhood' architect gets his Christmas wish
Katharine Murphy Government sources say Anthony Albanese has held Peter Slipper carefully in his back pocket.
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Labor's morale machine wishes Abbott a policy for Christmas
Katharine Murphy The mystery of what Anthony Albanese was doing off camera throughout the infamous Rats in the Ranks documentary was finally solved yesterday.
