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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The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
Free-for-all on foreigners as leaders chase votes
Katharine Murphy So that's where we are. We need to ''stop foreign workers being put at the front of the queue''. We need ''behavioural protocols'' for ''illegals'' so we all know whether undesirables are lurking...
Commando Conroy's roll of the dice
Katharine Murphy Next week or not at all, says the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of his media reform package.
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Christine's cheap headline grab
Katharine Murphy SO that Labor-Green alliance is off – loads of you have read the news this afternoon, arguments have broken out in the online comments, there's been a blizzard of break-up analogies – but has...
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Katter's populism dogs both parties
Katharine Murphy What does a new dam in far north Queensland have to do with a traffic snarl in western Sydney? Nothing at all, actually, despite some heroic connect-the-dots efforts by Labor ministers last week.
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Katter's world causing cluster headaches ...
Katharine Murphy Both major parties are scrambling to counter the new populist hero.
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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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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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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.
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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Obscure objectivity of desire
Katharine Murphy Talk of the looming death of newspapers blurs the issue. What's really under threat in the shift from print to digital is a commercially sustainable 'objective' model for news.
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Gillard tries to play with Abbott's mind
Katharine Murphy Not just Labor, but the Coalition and the Greens are facing testing times.
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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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Labor's morale machine wishes Abbott a policy for Christmas
Katharine Murphy The mystery of what Anthony Albanese was doing off camera throughout the infamous Rats in the Ranks documentary was finally solved yesterday.
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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.
