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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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Peta Credlin during The Duke's last visit to Australia Reception - The Great Hall at Parliament House. Prince Philip / The Duke of Edinburgh meets Peta Credlin. Picture supplied

Prince Philip’s life well-lived in service to others

Prince Philip was not merely the Queen’s consort but someone who lived a full life of duty and service to others, Peta Credlin writes.

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The Israeli flag flutters in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque and th city of Jerusalem, on December 1, 2017. Two Israeli cabinet ministers said on November 30 that they hoped US President Donald Trump was about to move his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as a decision deadline neared. The issue is deeply controversial. Shifting the building could be seen as a de facto recognition of Israel's claim over the whole city, including predominantly Palestinian east Jerusalem. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX

Labor breaks bipartisan approach to Israel

In Bob Hawke’s day, Labor was a staunch defender of Israel but now many in the party’s ranks view it as a “rich oppressor” that deserves routine condemnation, writes Peta Credlin.

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‘I stand by every decision I made to clean the place up’

By speaking out and making it clear that this muck in Parliament House is not an isolated case, Peta Credlin says she stirred a hornet’s nest of those who fear their secrets will now be told.

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05/01/16 - Backpackers Moeva Andre, 25, of France, Loen Traegler, 20, of Germany and Christophe Brunner, 28, of France picking stone fruit at Lowana Fruits in Renmark North.Picture: Tom Huntley

Australia has a shortage of people willing to work

Instead of using the pandemic as a catalyst to set up a proper population plan, we are still demanding more migrants as the lazy way to generate economic growth, Peta Credlin writes.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 14: Janine Hendry, spokesperson for the March 4 Justice, stands in front of Parliament House on March 14, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. The inaugural March 4 Justice will take place on Monday, March 15 in cities across Australia. Protesters in Canberra will deliver a petition calling on the Prime Minister with demands to act against gendered violence to female Members of Parliament. (Photo by Sean Foster/Getty Images)

Women’s campaign for change hijacked by political activism

It became obvious the main point of these March 4 Justice rallies was not the protection of women but the removal of the Morrison government, Peta Credlin writes.

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Why are people eager to let Dan Andrews off the hook?

Almost the entire political class would prefer to ignore an ongoing criminal investigation into the Victorian government for its inept handling of hotel quarantine that led to nearly 800 deaths, Peta Crelin writes.

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A handout still image taken from footage of a video call to mark British Science Week released by Buckingham Palace on March 12, 2021 shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor. - The Queen took part in a virtual science showcase with British scientists, educators and schoolchildren to mark British Science Week, a celebration of the role played in UK society by science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). (Photo by - / BUCKINGHAM PALACE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Royal tiff doesn’t mean our country has to change

Political commentator Peta Credlin says she is happy to endure the occasional royal melodrama if it safeguards the system that’s served Australia well.

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Labor is playing the game of double standards

Labor wants an inquiry into whether Christian Porter is a fit to be Attorney-General and it’s impossible to miss the double standards.

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04/02/2021. Former Australian PM John Howard, photographed at his office in Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

Sad decline in politics since the Howard era

It has been 25 years since John Howard was elected as prime minister and the period from 1996 to 2007 shows that whatever its faults, it puts subsequent governments to shame, Peta Credlin writes.

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Federal Defence Minister Linda Reynolds poses for a photo next to a model of the Barracuda-class submarine during a visit to Naval Group in Adelaide, Friday, February 28, 2020. The federal government has vowed to hold a French company to account after it pledged to spend 60 per cent of its $80 million submarine contract within Australia. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Replace flawed French deal with nuclear subs

Why is Australia waiting 15 years to end up with a worse submarine than one available now — and wasting $200 billion to do it, asks Peta Credlin.

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