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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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TOPSHOT - Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia on March 3, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow's advance in Ukraine is going

Green energy the reason Europe slow to condemn Putin

Europe’s push to unreliable wind and solar power in the name of combating climate change made it dependent on Russia for gas supplies, writes Peta Credlin.

IRPIN, UKRAINE - MARCH 04: A woman gestures as she looks out the train window as an evacuation train departs carrying women and children that fled fighting in Bucha and Irpin from Irpin City to Kyiv that was scheduled after heavy fighting overnight forced many to leave their homes on March 04, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. Russia continues their assault on Ukraine's major cities, including the capital Kyiv, a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukraine’s tragedy could be our future if we don’t prepare

Australia should not assume what’s happening in Ukraine will never happen here, writes Peta Credlin. We can hope for the best, but need to prepare for the worst.

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Credlin: Days of peace and prosperity have ended

Credlin: Days of peace and prosperity have ended

Unless the Ukrainians can swiftly and miraculously defeat the Russian blitzkrieg, what’s happening now will produce a poorer, harsher world; even for us, thousands of kilometres away, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 25: Anthony Albanese speaks at the National Press Club on January 25, 2022 in Canberra, Australia. Anthony Albanese is leader of the Australian Labor Party and leader of the opposition. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

Albo has each-way bet on Australia Day

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has placed the same each-way bet on changing our Australia Day date for years but he should say what he really thinks, Peta Credlin writes.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 24, 2021: Peter Dutton during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

National security is PM’s trump card

Peter Dutton saying exactly what he thinks on a subject that really matters — the threat from China — is a rallying cry for a government seeking a fourth term, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 11, 2021: Labor Leader Anthony Albanese (pictured) attended the Balmain service for Remembrance Day in Sydney today. He is seen chatting with local community members. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Labor premiers gang up on PM to get Albo in the Lodge

Labor premiers have gone rogue by abandoning national cabinet decisions and their only intention now is doing as much damage as possible to the PM ahead of the election, writes Peta Credlin.

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Two bills could cost Morrison’s coalition vital election votes

Two bills could cost Morrison’s coalition vital election votes

The Morrison government is testing his political base by introducing two significant proposals before the electorate has had a chance to digest what they are, writes Peta Credlin.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 9, 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Toyota Hydrogen Centre in Altona to unveil a new $250m electric vehicle plan. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

PM’s flawed EV policy cannot go the distance

There’s a litany of criticisms about Scott Morrison’s new policy on electric vehicles, but number one is the sheer impracticality of these cars for Aussie driving conditions, writes Peta Credlin.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos 07 NOVEMBER 2021 : Premier, Daniel Andrews answers questions during press conference at Becco Restaurant and Bar in the CBD. Picture : NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie

Royal commission needed to clean up Victoria

A fearless investigator with wide powers is needed to clean up Victoria’s police and judiciary in the same way the Fitzgerald Inquiry did in Queensland in the 1980s, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanks Australian troops and walks through of facilities utilised at AMAB for the Afghanistan evacuation, including a tour with key personnel from JTF 633 and other agencies involved in the evacuation effort in the United Arab Emirates on November 3, 2021. Picture: Adam Taylor Supplied by the Prime Ministers Office.

Republicans can teach Morrison a lesson

Going into the election, the PM needs an issue on which to differentiate the government from Labor so he should look to the Republican win in Virginia, Peta Credlin writes.

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