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.
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?
Free-for-all on foreigners as leaders chase votes
Katharine Murphy So that's where we are. We need to ''stop foreign workers being put at the front of the queue''. We need ''behavioural protocols'' for ''illegals'' so we all know whether undesirables are lurking...
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.
Analysis
It's now or never for government on media reforms
Katharine Murphy Given how late the Gillard government has left its run on media reform, Conroy has little option now other than to crash or crash through.
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.
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.
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2010 rewind as pollies still play voters for mugs
Katharine Murphy Perhaps it's just a slightly unhinged week. Those who are still paying off the bills from the therapy sessions following the 2010 election campaign – the most diminishing, grinding, pointless...
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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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Christine's cheap headline grab
Katharine Murphy SO that Labor-Green alliance is off – loads of you have read the news this afternoon, arguments have broken out in the online comments, there's been a blizzard of break-up analogies – but has...
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Katter's populism dogs both parties
Katharine Murphy What does a new dam in far north Queensland have to do with a traffic snarl in western Sydney? Nothing at all, actually, despite some heroic connect-the-dots efforts by Labor ministers last week.
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Katter's world causing cluster headaches ...
Katharine Murphy Both major parties are scrambling to counter the new populist hero.
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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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Labor's policy land grab may pull Abbott into war of ideas
Katharine Murphy Ideas are on the way back. This is a bold call given post-truth politics is meant to have triumphed and I've been deeply pessimistic for most of this year.
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Don't blink, but from a toxic mire the idea is on the march
Katharine Murphy In an election year, our leaders must connect with us on a deeper level.
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One parent's plea: hands off NAPLAN
Katharine Murphy Teachers are truly wonderful people. Anyone who has wandered onto the grounds of an ordinary neighbourhood public school gets that these people aren't in the occupation for the glory.
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Team Abbott should chart a new course
Katharine Murphy As we head to an election, we deserve more than negativity.
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Media reform? That summer is fading fast
Katharine Murphy I wonder if Justice Ray Finkelstein wants his summer back. Having rushed like blazes late last year to conduct a review of media policy for the Gillard government - conforming with a ridiculous...
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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?
