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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.

Former Premier Ted Baillieu sitting in the back bench.

No coup against Baillieu, says Abbott

Katharine Murphy There has been no shadowy coup against former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu - simply an ''orderly transition to a new premier'', Tony Abbott says.

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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RuddBull appeal says much about state of politics

Katharine Murphy It is striking how often you get the question from people outside politics: why aren't Rudd and Turnbull leading their respective parties, or why don't they join forces?

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Culture of entitlement wears thin

Katharine Murphy If Gillard, Rudd and Abbott want to serve our country, they should get on with it instead of constantly taking potshots.

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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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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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Bleak house struggles with great expectations

Katharine Murphy Government can no longer keep pace with the culture of entitlement - and something has to give, according to a hard-hitting assessment of Australian politics.

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The Labor story will end badly

Katharine Murphy Gillard may fall. Rudd may return. But the sense is that nothing can save the ALP from itself.

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Labor's morale machine wishes Abbott a policy for Christmas

Katharine Murphy The mystery of what Anthony Albanese was doing off camera throughout the infamous Rats in the Ranks documentary was finally solved yesterday.

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A policy jackpot for wily leaders

Katharine Murphy Tony Abbott is perched daily on the edge of his seat, a heartbeat away from stealing The Lodge.

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

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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