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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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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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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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