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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 speaks to the media during a press conference at the Sydney CPO in Sydney, Saturday, February 1, 2020. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has increased its travel advice for China to level 4 - do not travel - and foreign travellers who have left or passed through mainland China will be denied entry to Australia, as a result of the coronavirus. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Fear mustn’t dictate Australia’s coronavirus response

China may be one of Australia’s biggest trade partners, but keeping people safe in the face of the coronavirus must be the main motivator of the government’s decisions, writes Peta Credlin.

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Patriotic woman holding Australian flag in Blue Mountains Australia. Celebrate Australia Day, Sports supporter, tourism, Australian travel, Aussie Pride themes. Selective focus to woman only. Flag shows some motion from wind.

No debate — January 26 the perfect day to celebrate

The annual outcry over Australia Day may have been muted by the bushfires this year, but the reasons why we should celebrate January 26 are as strong as ever, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the fire ravaged town of Rappville.

How to reduce Morrison’s burning issue? Focus on fuel loads

If Scott Morrison wants to cure his political wounds and prevent the green left’s political point scoring over bushfires, he must change the debate on fuel loads, writes Peta Credlin.

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A Forest Corporation worker manages a fire hose as he battles a fire near Moruya, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called up about 3,000 reservists as the threat of wildfires escalated Saturday in at least three states with two more deaths, and strong winds and high temperatures were forecast to bring flames to populated areas including the suburbs of Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Royal commission must come with promise of real change

If Australians really want to long-term change to how we manage bushfires we have to consider why we’ve failed so many times before and commit to righting those wrongs, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference on the governments' bushfire response at Parliament House in Canberra, Saturday, January 4, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Scott Morrison is on a hiding to nothing over bushfires

Australia will never have enough resources to save every home from every bushfire. But if the PM wants to regain control, risk management to the forefront of his actions, writes Peta Credlin.

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This RFS crew from Manyana calls themselves the ÒDadÕs ArmyÓ and was actively working to protect and defend properties near East Lynne on Tuesday afternoon. The group planned to work a 12-hour shift from 12pm to 12am. There average was 62 years old with the oldest berth 72.RFS volunteer fire fighters carry out property protection on remote properties around East Lynne, on the NSW south coast. Picture Gary Ramage

Is paying volunteer firefighters worth the long-term price?

Nobody could deny that our firefighters have gone above and beyond this summer, but open the floodgates to pay one volunteer group, and the rest will come running, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media after touring the NSW Rural Fire Service control room in Sydney, Sunday, December 22, 2019. Mr Morrison arrived back in Sydney on Saturday after cutting a family holiday in Hawaii short amid the bushfire emergency in NSW. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

PMs taking a holiday isn’t the problem, covering it up is

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would begrudge the Prime Minister a holiday once a year, but Scott Morrison’s team missed the point in how they went about it, writes Peta Credlin.

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Reserve Bank’s climate change distraction won’t fly

Instead of respecting the will of voters, a group of corporate regulators and virtue signallers are trying to bring about by stealth what Australians rejected in May, writes Peta Credlin.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement in Downing Street after receiving permission to form the next government during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace earlier today, on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The Conservative Party have realised a decisive win in the UK General Election. With one seat left to declare they have won 364 of the 650 seats available. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. He said at an early morning press conference that he would repay the trust of voters. (Photo by Chris Furlong/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson’s win sends a clear message to Morrison

If there’s one takeaway from the UK election for Scott Morrison, it’s that there’s real power in delivering sensible outcomes that the voting public actually want, writes Peta Credlin.

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Demonstrators hold up placards at a climate protest rally in Sydney on December 11, 2019. - Up to 20,000 protesters rallied in Sydney on December 11 demanding urgent climate action from Australia's government, as bushfire smoke choking the city caused health problems to spike. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Climate change hysterics need a lesson in history

Bushfires are nothing new in the land of “droughts and flooding rain”. What is relatively new, though, is cult panic attributing every weather event to climate change, writes Peta Credlin.

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