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
Team Abbott should chart a new course
Katharine Murphy As we head to an election, we deserve more than negativity.
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The big question for 2013: who will 'own' middle Australia?
Katharine Murphy The American election campaign is a guide to our own coming contest.
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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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Rip off those headphones and let the pollies hear some truths
Katharine Murphy I've been away a couple of weeks, taking the air, reminding myself how easy it is to just tune out politics. Dangerously simple. Just hit mute.
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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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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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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.
