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.
The media must embrace reform to survive
Katharine Murphy Should we be surprised when it comes to media reform that most of the protagonists are working an angle?
Let's hear more from Pyne on 'chalk and talk' teaching
Katharine Murphy Universities join the miners in using ads to gain influence.
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Christine's cheap headline grab
Katharine Murphy SO that Labor-Green alliance is off – loads of you have read the news this afternoon, arguments have broken out in the online comments, there's been a blizzard of break-up analogies – but has...
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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...
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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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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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Let's not wait to find who we really are
Katharine Murphy Cobbling together quick solutions is one thing. Long-term is harder.
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Labor's plan is on song and on the money
Katharine Murphy The Gillard government's strategy to claw back lost political ground is not exactly innovative. In fact, its core is older than time.
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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.
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Buying a few more minutes for Labor
Katharine Murphy Julia Gillard's tactics reflect a government afflicted by an addiction to short-termism.
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Will Tony's story be a thriller?
Katharine Murphy If the polls reflect reality, the Opposition Leader is in the box seat to reshape Australia in his own image. But will he?
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Team Abbott embraces Asia
Katharine Murphy There's more to the political debate than white noise about Thomson and Slipper.
Katharine Murphy and Tom Arup
Fading star
Katharine Murphy and Tom Arup Under former celebrity candidate and green warrior Peter Garrett, Labor's dominance of environment issues is ebbing away.
