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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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BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 04: A Chinese paramilitary policeman wears a protective mask stands in front of a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong reacts during a national mourning to mourn victims of COVID-19 on April 04, 2020 in Beijing, China. China will hold a national mourning on Saturday for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus and compatriots died of COVID-19, according to the State Council. During the commemoration, national flags will fly at half-mast across the country as well as in all Chinese embassies and consulates abroad. Public recreational activities will be suspended. At 10:00 am on Saturday, the country will observe three minutes of silence to mourn for the diseased, while air raid sirens and horns of automobiles, trains and ships will wail in grief. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Post-COVID, we must rethink our relationship with China

Once coronavirus is under control, countries around the world will be forced to analyse their once chummy relationships with China, no matter how uncomfortable the truth, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison listens to Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy as he speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

National response to coronavirus could be the making of us

These are, as we keep saying, extraordinary times and for the man at the helm, that means there’s no road map. But together, we are moving in the right direction, writes Peta Credlin.

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Crowds gather at the Fortitude Valley Centrelink. Pic Peter Wallis

Aussies need wages, not handouts

When government policy is to close businesses down, that policy must also then extend to helping keep workers on. It’s not good enough to send them off to Centrelink, writes Peta Credlin.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 28, 2020 shows workers producing face masks at a factory in Handan in China's northern Hebei province. - As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that originated the central Chinese city of Wuhan has gone global, thousands of factories in China have nimbly turned to a new and very profitable market -– face masks for export. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT / TO GO WITH Health-virus-China-economy-masks,FOCUS by Qian Ye and Helen Roxburgh

What China stands to gain from coronavirus

As COVID-19 continues to sweep across Western nations and throw the global economy into a tailspin, the risk that China will make huge gains out of this is very real, writes Peta Credlin.

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(L-R) Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australia's Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Coronavirus will be our nation’s greatest test of character

So much of what happens from here on in, and how we cope as a nation, requires the coming together. Because in the end, the only people Australians can rely on, are ourselves, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 13: (L-R) Professor Brendon Murphy, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian are pictured during a press conference announcing the recommendation that all mass gatherings of 500 people `or more are cancelled from Monday 16th of March. The government is also recommending against all overseas travel. The press conference followed the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on 13th of March, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The usual agenda for the state, territory and local government leaders has been set aside to discuss measures to stop further spreading of COVID-19 in Australia. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Next COVID-19 challenge is our psychological preparedness

Rather than panic over ramped coronavirus measures, we should be stiffening our collective national spine and realising that none of this is new, it’s just new to us, writes Peta Credlin.

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Three Australian flags the Torres Strait, Australia and Aboriginal flags

Our High Court appointments have never mattered more

There were always going to be those who exploited the loophole introduced by the High Court last month, but the bigger question is what it means for the future of our judges, writes Peta Credlin.

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Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 27, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Labor’s emissions targets claims still don’t add up

This furphy of the Green-Left that everyone else in the world is going green and somehow Australia is the fossil fuel pariah of the world is just rubbish. It’s time we call it out, writes Peta Credlin.

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Child scratching head with question mark on blackboard concept for confusion, brainstorming and choice

For the sake of our future, give our kids a proper education

Labor’s climate policies coupled with a failing education system does not bode well, Peta Credlin warns. If our children are going to steer us through one of our most challenging periods, they need higher quality teaching.

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BAE System’s Global Combat Ship - Australia will be one of the most advanced anti-submarine warships in the world. The Hunter class FFGs will be built in Australia by ASC Shipbuilding at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia. Picture: BAE

Make no mistake, Australia’s naval future in serious trouble

Thanks to a failure in reading the fine print, Australia’s next generation of submarines are going to cost us far more than just $220 billion, writes Peta Credlin.

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