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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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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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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Will Joyce have Abbott dancing to the bush populist's tune?
Katharine Murphy The foreign investment decision revealed a delicate juggling act.
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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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The ghost of Howard hovers over Gillard's marriage vow
Katharine Murphy Odd perhaps to note this, given all the eulogising that Labor conferences deliver about Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam and the rest, but an interloper ghost hovers over this weekend's federal ALP...
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Breaking the bonds on marriage
Katharine Murphy The discrimination against same-sex couples should end, but progress on the issue can't be taken for granted.
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Libs rejoice: the Kroger era is over
Katharine Murphy WAGS in the Victorian Liberal Party refer to Michael Kroger as the Bamboo General. ''Bamboo'' refers to Kroger's penchant for dining at the Chinatown restaurant Bamboo House, Melbourne's canteen for...
Katharine Murphy and Tom Arup
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.
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Turnbull does not bow before the executioners' blade
Katharine Murphy If Malcolm Turnbull was going down, he was going to fight. The Turnbulls of Point Piper never take a backward step. We fight. We are Malcolm Turnbull. We fight.
