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.
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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?
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.
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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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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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The trouble with Barnaby and the LNP
Katharine Murphy Journalist David Marr, in the new Quarterly Essay hitting shops today, recalls the minister in the Howard government who liked to improvise on his feet and think off-script.
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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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Gillard tries to play with Abbott's mind
Katharine Murphy Not just Labor, but the Coalition and the Greens are facing testing times.
Abbott's Chinese dance
Katharine Murphy Abbott has today raised explicitly the idea that China should embark on political reform.
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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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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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Alarm on the set of Survivor
Katharine Murphy The tribe votes in Queensland and Labor can't escape premonitions of who will be next to leave the island.
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No Huawei - we must not let roadblocks bar our path
Katharine Murphy If you want to consider Australia's 'Asian Century' conundrum in one case-study, look no further than the story of Huawei, the communications giant and China's largest privately owned company.
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Breaking the bonds on marriage
Katharine Murphy The discrimination against same-sex couples should end, but progress on the issue can't be taken for granted.
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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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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.
