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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RuddBull appeal says much about state of politics
Katharine Murphy It is striking how often you get the question from people outside politics: why aren't Rudd and Turnbull leading their respective parties, or why don't they join forces?
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Media reform? That summer is fading fast
Katharine Murphy I wonder if Justice Ray Finkelstein wants his summer back. Having rushed like blazes late last year to conduct a review of media policy for the Gillard government - conforming with a ridiculous...
Gillard, Abbott and the state of the hashonomy
Katharine Murphy The contributions at the Abbott hashtags range from laugh out loud witty to mildly vitriolic. Options more popular than the Opposition leader include ''warm Fanta'', ''a hipster in Broadmeadows'',...
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The vibes from America are bad for Abbott
Katharine Murphy What does Obama's win mean? Maybe, just maybe, carbon pricing.
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Is Gillard hitting her stride?
Katharine Murphy Things seem to be getting harder for Tony Abbott - but it's still too soon to be betting on an early election.
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Culture of entitlement wears thin
Katharine Murphy If Gillard, Rudd and Abbott want to serve our country, they should get on with it instead of constantly taking potshots.
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The big question for 2013: who will 'own' middle Australia?
Katharine Murphy The American election campaign is a guide to our own coming contest.
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Life moments in the kitchen of great House
Katharine Murphy Politics has entered the on-demand era. The audience is king. Practically, it was ever thus in this sense: politicians must face the voters every cycle, and live or die by the judgment of the people.
Destroying the Joint
Katharine Murphy Author and commentator Jane Caro talks about the social media campaign targeting Alan Jones - 'Destroying the Joint'. Julia Gillard and ACT chief minister Katy Gallagher reflect on the movement.
Downton Abbott
Katharine Murphy The continuing soap opera of a great house.
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The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
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Handbags at 10 paces
Katharine Murphy Australian politics reached a new point last week when the handbag hit squad and the reverse handbag hit squad slugged it out in 30 frenetic minutes before parliamentary question time.
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Tony Abbott's women problem
Katharine Murphy He may have not think he has a women problem, but some seem to have a problem with him.
Politics at a tipping point?
Katharine Murphy The opinion polls have been swinging Labor's way. Katharine Murphy and Chris Hammer discuss what lies ahead.
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Swords come at Gillard from all sides
Katharine Murphy 'FRIENDS, the fight is on, it's the fight of our lives, let's get out there and win it,'' Prime Minister Julia Gillard declared in Queensland yesterday, back at work after the death of her father.
Abbott's political past
Katharine Murphy Tony Abbott continues to be plagued by allegations he misbehaved as a student politician. Katharine Murphy and Chris Hammer discuss why.
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The trouble with Barnaby and the LNP
Katharine Murphy Journalist David Marr, in the new Quarterly Essay hitting shops today, recalls the minister in the Howard government who liked to improvise on his feet and think off-script.
News Ltd boss blasts 'dangerous' media laws
Katharine Murphy News Limited boss Kim Williams has blasted tougher media regulations ahead of Cabinet consideration of the issue expected in the next few weeks.
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Read all about it: journalism has a future!
Katharine Murphy Over this past weekend I've read too many last columns from friends and colleagues who are leaving journalism; the best of the best. Melancholia feels the only reasonable response.
Abbott's record queried
Katharine Murphy Opposition Leader Tony Abbott could face a probe by the Privileges Committee into whether he misled Parliament in comments about the shelved Olympic Dam expansion.
