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?
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It's now or never for government on media reforms
Katharine Murphy Given how late the Gillard government has left its run on media reform, Conroy has little option now other than to crash or crash through.
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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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All set for the media tango, politicians versus proprietors
Katharine Murphy All politics is local, goes the maxim. It's a quaint notion in our globalised world, and yet it's still substantially true. Here's a case study to illustrate the point.
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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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'Enhanced' press council the bet
Katharine Murphy With media proprietors tense and on the warpath, Cabinet must roll from the current carbon price controversy to the prickly subject of charting future media regulation over the next couple of weeks.
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The Labor story will end badly
Katharine Murphy Gillard may fall. Rudd may return. But the sense is that nothing can save the ALP from itself.
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A policy jackpot for wily leaders
Katharine Murphy Tony Abbott is perched daily on the edge of his seat, a heartbeat away from stealing The Lodge.
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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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Dogfight we had to have
Katharine Murphy SO WHAT now for Labor? What to do in the wreckage of all the fighting words?
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Gloves are off as tussle for the top begins
Katharine Murphy SLICK operation, the Rudd family.
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No Huawei - we must not let roadblocks bar our path
Katharine Murphy If you want to consider Australia's 'Asian Century' conundrum in one case-study, look no further than the story of Huawei, the communications giant and China's largest privately owned company.
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Tuning in to a soap opera of which even TV would be proud
Katharine Murphy A rare insight into how business is sometimes done in Canberra.
