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.
Remember voters, you can steer Australia's future
Katharine Murphy Politics is itself devaluing the currency of leadership in some attempt to remain one step ahead of opinion polls.
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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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Facebook and Twitter afford politicians more control
Katharine Murphy For a backroom boy, John McTernan attracts a lot of column centimetres. There's a negative perception inside the government that the Prime Minister's senior communications adviser courts publicity.
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The librarian's strategy
Katharine Murphy The tango between pollies and the media is changing. But will voters benefit?
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The vibes from America are bad for Abbott
Katharine Murphy What does Obama's win mean? Maybe, just maybe, carbon pricing.
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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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Obscure objectivity of desire
Katharine Murphy Talk of the looming death of newspapers blurs the issue. What's really under threat in the shift from print to digital is a commercially sustainable 'objective' model for news.
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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.
Abbott's Chinese dance
Katharine Murphy Abbott has today raised explicitly the idea that China should embark on political reform.
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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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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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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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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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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...
