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.
Craig Thomson and the politics of slow corrosion
Katharine Murphy ANALYSIS
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A duty to scrutinise
Katharine Murphy Thomson misunderstands the media if he thinks his denials are the end of the story.
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Thomson and the legal merry-go-round
Katharine Murphy It might be the stuff of a comedy sketch, if it wasn't extremely serious. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions today has had to issue a statement pointing out the obvious: they are...
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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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Team Abbott embraces Asia
Katharine Murphy There's more to the political debate than white noise about Thomson and Slipper.
