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Peta Credlin
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Peta Credlin AO is a weekly columnist with The Australian, and also with News Corp Australia’s Sunday mastheads, including The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. Since 2017, she has hosted her successful prime-time program Credlin on Sky News Australia, Monday to Thursday at 6.00pm. She’s won a Kennedy Award for her investigative journalism (2021), two News Awards (2021, 2024) and is a joint Walkley Award winner (2016) for her coverage of federal politics. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to Howard government ministers in the portfolios of defence, communications, immigration, and foreign affairs. Between 2009 and 2015, she was chief of staff to Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition and later as Prime Minister. Peta is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, with legal qualifications from the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 09: Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down the 2023 Budget in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on May 09, 2023 in Canberra, Australia. The Albanese government's 2023 budget focused on economic recovery, healthcare, national security and climate action with a global geopolitical landscape at its most unstable in decades. The Australian economy still facing inflation headwinds with real wages lagging interest rate rises. (Photo by Martin Ollman/Getty Images) (Photo by Martin Ollman/Getty Images)

Labor fails character test with budget

The Albanese government’s first real budget says we’re in for bigger government, for higher taxes, and for more incentives for people to stay on welfare, writes Peta Credlin.

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