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
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.
Katharine Murphy
Let's not wait to find who we really are
Katharine Murphy Cobbling together quick solutions is one thing. Long-term is harder.
Katharine Murphy
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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It's a tale of two transitions as the economy takes centre stage
Katharine Murphy THE ABC's Four Corners program tonight will keep the spot fires of the Labor leadership story burning - despite the fact that Julia Gillard managed to open the 2012 parliamentary year with a solid...
