Katharine Murphy

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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All set for the media tango, politicians versus proprietors

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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!

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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.

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Gloves are off as tussle for the top begins

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 22: Kevin Rudd waves goodbye while leaving the Willard Hotel February 22, 2012 in Washington, DC. Rudd resigned early this morning as Australian foreign minister, setting the stage for a heated battle with Prime Minister Julia Gillard for leadership of the country.   Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP

Katharine Murphy SLICK operation, the Rudd family.

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No Huawei - we must not let roadblocks bar our path

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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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Team Abbott embraces Asia

Katharine Murphy There's more to the political debate than white noise about Thomson and Slipper.

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