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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Abbott puts aside pugilism to set a new moral course
Katharine Murphy He's claiming a leadership role on recognition of indigenous Australians.
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Beware the distorting influence of the live news cycle
Katharine Murphy Media 'gatekeepers' can often help you weigh the significance of the news.
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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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Dear pollies, rise above the cheap slogans
Katharine Murphy It's bitterly cold in Canberra; one of those winters so bleak you worry spring will never come.
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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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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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Enough of this Labor madness, Julia. It's time to bring it on
Katharine Murphy The PM should do the grown-up thing and spill the leadership.
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Hunt off-target with Abbott defence
Katharine Murphy What Greg Hunt’s said in the "target" row is a complete distortion of the facts.
Craig Thomson and the politics of slow corrosion
Katharine Murphy ANALYSIS
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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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Buying a few more minutes for Labor
Katharine Murphy Julia Gillard's tactics reflect a government afflicted by an addiction to short-termism.
Storm over reef not out of blue
Katharine Murphy A BIT out of the blue, this fight between Canberra and Queensland over approval for a $6.4 billion coal project owned by Gina Rinehart and the Indian conglomerate GVK? Possibly, it looks that way.
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Turnbull does not bow before the executioners' blade
Katharine Murphy If Malcolm Turnbull was going down, he was going to fight. The Turnbulls of Point Piper never take a backward step. We fight. We are Malcolm Turnbull. We fight.
