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.
Let's hear more from Pyne on 'chalk and talk' teaching
Katharine Murphy Universities join the miners in using ads to gain influence.
No coup against Baillieu, says Abbott
Katharine Murphy There has been no shadowy coup against former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu - simply an ''orderly transition to a new premier'', Tony Abbott says.
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Labor's policy land grab may pull Abbott into war of ideas
Katharine Murphy Ideas are on the way back. This is a bold call given post-truth politics is meant to have triumphed and I've been deeply pessimistic for most of this year.
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Don't blink, but from a toxic mire the idea is on the march
Katharine Murphy In an election year, our leaders must connect with us on a deeper level.
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One parent's plea: hands off NAPLAN
Katharine Murphy Teachers are truly wonderful people. Anyone who has wandered onto the grounds of an ordinary neighbourhood public school gets that these people aren't in the occupation for the glory.
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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.
