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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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Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, June 5, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

How Morrison’s new reform puts Australia back on top

Some things are more important than money – like national security and self-respect. And the Prime Minister’s latest changes to foreign investment prove just that, writes Peta Credlin.

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22/09/2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Morrison’s problem is no longer COVID-19, it’s Dan Andrews

While the Prime Minister is trying to steer us out of the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus, Victorian premier Dan Andrews is busy getting into bed with China, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference following a National Cabinet meeting on on May 15, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Scott Morrison announced a $48 million commitment to the national mental health plan. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

State political games put Australia’s recovery at risk

With so many lessons coming out of this crisis, the behaviour of our state and territory leaders should be serious cause for concern for all of us, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference following a National Cabinet meeting on on May 15, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Scott Morrison announced a $48 million commitment to the national mental health plan. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

What price do we put on national security?

While the system Chinese people are forced to live under is now crystal clear, it’s much less clear how Australia can and should respond to it in the long-term, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Australia’s COVID response is now envy of the world

During times like these it’s easy to focus on the hardships rather than the successes. And while there’s still a way to go, what we’ve achieved in fighting coronavirus is mighty, 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.

The inexplicable pain of Mother’s Day during COVID-19

For so many of us, this Mother’s Day will be harder than usual. Not only can we not see those mums still with us, we also can’t properly grieve those who are gone, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 01: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a press conference on May 01, 2020 at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. The ACT became the first Australian state or territory to be free of any known COVID-19 cases on Thursday, following the recovery of the last person to contract the coronavirus in Canberra. Despite the local elimination of the virus, ACT health authorities have confirmed current restrictions on travel, gatherings and social distancing will remain in place, as will expanding testing to asymptomatic patients and those with mild symptoms to ensure there are no further outbreaks. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

States need to allow Morrison to get Australia moving again

For the first time in decades, Australia faces real hardship. To get through it, we can’t afford the indulgent thinking – or state bureaucracy – that’s held us back in the past, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison gives a coronavirus update at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, April 24, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Why JobKeeper will only worsen our economic crisis

COVID-19 is decimating small businesses across Australia, and sadly, the Government’s welfare assistance package, however well intentioned, is only likely to make things worse, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australia's outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks at a press conference in Canberra on August 24, 2018. - Scott Morrison was sworn in as Australia's seventh prime minister in 11 years on August 24 after a stunning party revolt against Malcolm Turnbull, which the new leader admitted had left the government

Turnbull isn’t torching anyone’s legacy but his own

Malcolm Turnbull may have aspirations of setting the record straight with his new book, but all the former PM is really doing is ignoring the facts and coming off as sad, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg attend a parliamentary sitting under rules of social distancing in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Coronavirus could economically dog us for decades to come

While the Prime Minister manages this once in a lifetime crisis, it’s now up to other party players to step up to ease the load. If they don’t, we may not ever get out of this, writes Peta Credlin.

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