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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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How voter fraud happens in Australia

If Australia wants to avoid our elections sinking into US-style chaos, we need to improve our systems and make elections tamper-proof, because right now they aren’t, writes Peta Credlin.

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More heads must roll after hotel quarantine inquiry

Emails have revealed a request for ADF troops to help with our botched hotel quarantine was abruptly cancelled 12 hours later, for reasons no gutless official in the Daniel Andrews government will admit, and it’s time they stopped the charade, writes Peta Credlin.

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Why the only real vote that counts is on election day

President Trump didn’t lead a single national poll ahead of the US election and yet the result has now been too close to call for days. So can the polling that suggests Dan Andrews remains popular with the Victorian people be trusted, writes Peta Credlin.

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