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.
Malcolm Turnbull and the goblet of fire
Katharine Murphy Having been invited to express some humanity, Turnbull thought he might bin the standard dot-point formulations about what it's like to lose the party leadership, and tell the truth.
The media must embrace reform to survive
Katharine Murphy Should we be surprised when it comes to media reform that most of the protagonists are working an angle?
Commando Conroy's roll of the dice
Katharine Murphy Next week or not at all, says the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of his media reform package.
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Beware the distorting influence of the live news cycle
Katharine Murphy Media 'gatekeepers' can often help you weigh the significance of the news.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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...
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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.
