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?
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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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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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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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Team Abbott should chart a new course
Katharine Murphy As we head to an election, we deserve more than negativity.
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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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The big question for 2013: who will 'own' middle Australia?
Katharine Murphy The American election campaign is a guide to our own coming contest.
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The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
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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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Gillard tries to play with Abbott's mind
Katharine Murphy Not just Labor, but the Coalition and the Greens are facing testing times.
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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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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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Buying a few more minutes for Labor
Katharine Murphy Julia Gillard's tactics reflect a government afflicted by an addiction to short-termism.
Storm over reef not out of blue
Katharine Murphy A BIT out of the blue, this fight between Canberra and Queensland over approval for a $6.4 billion coal project owned by Gina Rinehart and the Indian conglomerate GVK? Possibly, it looks that way.
