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.
Katharine Murphy
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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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.
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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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Rip off those headphones and let the pollies hear some truths
Katharine Murphy I've been away a couple of weeks, taking the air, reminding myself how easy it is to just tune out politics. Dangerously simple. Just hit mute.
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It's growing hotter in the kitchen
Katharine Murphy Out of the carbon tax, into the boats. That's the next month or so for Gillard Labor. Alternating between frying pans and fires.
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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...
