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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.

John McTernan is courting publishers outside the mainstream media with access to audiences valuable to the Prime Minister.'

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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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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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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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All set for the media tango, politicians versus proprietors

Katharine Murphy All politics is local, goes the maxim. It's a quaint notion in our globalised world, and yet it's still substantially true. Here's a case study to illustrate the point.

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Rip off those headphones and let the pollies hear some truths

Katharine Murphy I've been away a couple of weeks, taking the air, reminding myself how easy it is to just tune out politics. Dangerously simple. Just hit mute.

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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 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...