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?
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...
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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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Is Gillard hitting her stride?
Katharine Murphy Things seem to be getting harder for Tony Abbott - but it's still too soon to be betting on an early election.
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Handbags at 10 paces
Katharine Murphy Australian politics reached a new point last week when the handbag hit squad and the reverse handbag hit squad slugged it out in 30 frenetic minutes before parliamentary question time.
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Tony Abbott's women problem
Katharine Murphy He may have not think he has a women problem, but some seem to have a problem with him.
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The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
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Swords come at Gillard from all sides
Katharine Murphy 'FRIENDS, the fight is on, it's the fight of our lives, let's get out there and win it,'' Prime Minister Julia Gillard declared in Queensland yesterday, back at work after the death of her father.
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Labor's plan is on song and on the money
Katharine Murphy The Gillard government's strategy to claw back lost political ground is not exactly innovative. In fact, its core is older than time.
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Bleak house struggles with great expectations
Katharine Murphy Government can no longer keep pace with the culture of entitlement - and something has to give, according to a hard-hitting assessment of Australian politics.
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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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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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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...
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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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Alarm on the set of Survivor
Katharine Murphy The tribe votes in Queensland and Labor can't escape premonitions of who will be next to leave the island.
Labor on the critical list
Katharine Murphy The current talk isn't about another thrill-kill, for the hell of it — a bit more gratuitous violence.
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Fading star
Katharine Murphy and Tom Arup Under former celebrity candidate and green warrior Peter Garrett, Labor's dominance of environment issues is ebbing away.
