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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After a sudden, shocking event, it's time to connect again
Katharine Murphy So unspeakably awful. Can a prank call by a couple of commercial radio ''funsters'' from Australia really have triggered a woman's suicide in London?
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No one is laughing now
Katharine Murphy After the 'pranked' nurse tragedy, the media needs to look deep into its heart.
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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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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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Read all about it: journalism has a future!
Katharine Murphy Over this past weekend I've read too many last columns from friends and colleagues who are leaving journalism; the best of the best. Melancholia feels the only reasonable response.
