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1 In the Media : Reporting on Gender and the Misogyny Speech Katharine Murphy , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Not Now, Not Ever : Ten Years on from the Misogyny Speech 2022;
1 Australian Arts and Culture to Get $250m Rescue Package from Morrison Government Katharine Murphy , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 June 2020;
1 Tributes to Bob Hawke Soar above the Political Fray with a Homily in Praise of Change Katharine Murphy , 2019 single work obituary (for Bob Hawke )
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 July 2019;

'Labor veteran Warren Snowdon leads the charge on parliament’s day of condolences for the former PM, with a plea to ‘remove the ideological shackles’ and work for Indigenous advancement.'
1 Lost for Words: A Tribute to a Friend Katharine Murphy , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 77 no. 2 2018; (p. 30-33)

'On the Saturday my friend dived into his beloved surf for the last time I was closeted away on Canberra’s limestone plains, landlocked, writing. Over the Christmas break I’d fully disconnected, hoping to gather some thoughts about where journalism had landed, or failed to land, after ten years of constant change, and then massage them into publishable form. That weekend was the last big push to get the words right.'  (Introduction)
1 The Hair Apparent Katharine Murphy , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 75 no. 4 2016; (p. 85-88) Meanjin Online 2016; 'My daughter has just finished school. I contest this fact most days, driving her to distraction. I keep prosecuting the point - darling, it can't be over - because I'm almost certain that in her private life, in the life she enjoys precisely because it exists outside the orbit of my benign parental suffocation, there are practical tasks she may have neglected. I also keep prosecuting the point because there is no other avenue for me to articulate my own incredulity. I'm not sure how we got here. I find rage brimming in me as I contemplate the finality of the milestone. For some reason our local preschool cops the weight of my animus. I drive past it most days, conveying my teenagers to school, driving with heart pounding to work, to get to that radio interview, to that panel I'm supposedly hosting, to get in to work before the car park at Parliament House reaches capacity, to run upstairs to be at my desk in time for a news conference; or driving in less harried fashion in the direction of Civic in times of leisure, crawling mulishly past this totem of our collective past, this prosaic suburban sacred site, which is profoundly indifferent to my current pulses of irrationality.' (Publication abstract)
1 1 This Connected Life Katharine Murphy , 2013 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 72 no. 1 2013; (p. 30-39)
1 Sexist Abbott Blasted in a New Book Katharine Murphy , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 30 September 2011; (p. 6)
1 Unsettling Home Truths Katharine Murphy , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 September 2011; (p. 15)
1 Winners and Wonky Leaks : The Canberra Christmas Odyssey - A Restoration Comedy in One Act Katharine Murphy , 2010 single work drama satire
— Appears in: The Age , 17 December 2010; (p. 27)
1 Book Import Revolt Looms Katharine Murphy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 9)
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