Katharine Murphy

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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Team Abbott should chart a new course

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Katharine Murphy As we head to an election, we deserve more than negativity.

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Handbags at 10 paces

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and wife Margie visit the Sesame Lane child care centre in Kippa Ring in the northern Brisbane marginal seat of Petrie today.

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

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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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It's a tale of two transitions as the economy takes centre stage

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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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No Huawei - we must not let roadblocks bar our path

Katharine Murphy If you want to consider Australia's 'Asian Century' conundrum in one case-study, look no further than the story of Huawei, the communications giant and China's largest privately owned company.

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Team Abbott embraces Asia

Katharine Murphy There's more to the political debate than white noise about Thomson and Slipper.

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