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 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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Breaking the bonds on marriage
Katharine Murphy The discrimination against same-sex couples should end, but progress on the issue can't be taken for granted.
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The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
