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
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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Culture of entitlement wears thin
Katharine Murphy If Gillard, Rudd and Abbott want to serve our country, they should get on with it instead of constantly taking potshots.
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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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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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Only together can Labor excavate its way out of this hole
Katharine Murphy Julia Gillard's bid to lead from the front signals a new phase for the party.
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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.
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Will Tony's story be a thriller?
Katharine Murphy If the polls reflect reality, the Opposition Leader is in the box seat to reshape Australia in his own image. But will he?
