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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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Dump the spin, Dan, and do your job

Dan Andrews claims Victoria’s hotel quarantine is “gold standard”, but it looks more like fool’s gold for fed up Victorians.

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What sort of woefully woke world have we become?

‘Birthing parents’ who produce ‘chest milk’, and a New Zealand MP who likens a necktie to a noose — has the world gone completely mad, asks Peta Credlin.

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Time to move quarantine to remote areas

As long as we allow people to return to Australia, our point of vulnerability will always be hotel quarantine. It’s time to relocate it.

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PNG’s Chinese city a diplomatic challenge

Talk of building a $40b Chinese-funded city on the other side of the Torres Strait shows how eager Beijing is to win over the gullible, Peta Credlin writes.

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Shuffling the decks won’t win Labor more votes

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s reshuffle laid bare the great disconnect inside Labor between the climate zealots in the parliament, Peta Credlin writes.

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Premier Palaszczuk’s panic to cost us all dearly

Australians shouldn’t have to pay the bill for Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s trigger-happy border closures, Peta Credlin writes.

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30/10/18: Political commentator Peta Credlin who will be writing a column fr The Australian newspaper. John Feder/The Australian.

Bring on a Royal Commission into COVID

Australians deserve to feel proud as this year draws to a close, but we still need answers into how states dealt with the pandemic.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 21, 2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks at a media conference at the Parliament House gardens. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Inquiry proves spin is the only test for leadership

The botched hotel quarantine program was a scandal but this whitewash of a report is an even bigger one, says Peta Credlin.

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30/10/18: Political commentator Peta Credlin who will be writing a column fr The Australian newspaper. John Feder/The Australian.

Hotel quarantine questions that need answers

It’s hard to see the Coate Inquiry into hotel quarantine, and the 800 deaths that resulted from its failure, being anything other than a whitewash, writes Peta Credlin.

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30/10/18: Political commentator Peta Credlin who will be writing a column fr The Australian newspaper. John Feder/The Australian.

We need a royal commission into COVID response

Sydney’s coronavirus cluster has highlighted the need for stricter quarantine restrictions for aircrews, and that’s just one issue a COVID royal commission could examine, writes Peta Credlin.

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