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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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Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus celebrate on October 7, 2023, after fighters from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Labor shamefully trading visas for votes

For Labor to contemplate giving thousands of permanent visas to people from Gaza looks shamefully akin to visas for votes, disqualifying the government from re-election, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess speak during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, August 5, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Why this could be our worst government ever

The Albanese government is in a lot of trouble – and the biggest albatross around Labor’s neck is a Prime Minister not up to the job of leading when we face serious challenges, writes Peta Credlin.

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Palestinians celebrate their return after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

PM forgoes immigrant security checks to shore up votes

To hell with Australia’s long-term national interest, all that matters to Anthony Albanese is scraping back into office — and if that means importing more Islamists into the country, so be it, writes Peta Credlin.

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This photo taken on January 7, 2022 shows a worker checking solar photovoltaic modules used for small solar panels at a factory in Haian in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

Voters wise up to smoke and solar panels trick

Labor’s problem is that voters are finally waking up to politicians running the power system to reduce emissions rather than to produce reliable and affordable electricity, writes Peta Credlin.

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CFMEU protest through Brisbane to ALP National Conference at South Brisbane, Thursday, August 17, 2023 - Picture: Richard Walker

Credlin: Why Labor and the CFMEU is an unholy alliance

It’s impossible to believe that senior figures in the Labor Party and the ACTU were universally ignorant of the thuggish nature of the CFMEU, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 6, 2024: Pro-Palestine protesters posters and graffiti outside the building that houses the offices of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Marrickville road in Marrickville.Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Credlin: Why Albo’s given Green light to the protesters

Weak and spineless hardly begins to describe any government that would prefer the police to shirk their responsibilities because exercising them might be politically awkward, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - July 4, 2024: Senator Fatima Payman holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Credlin: Payman saga wiped out goodwill over cost-of-living relief

The start of power bill relief and tax cuts should have marked a rare good news week for the Albanese government. Instead it was hijacked by a turncoat senator who should have been disciplined by the PM weeks ago, writes Peta Credlin.

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PM has a shocker of a week

Credlin: Is Albanese’s appalling week the start of the end?

The Prime Minister looked weak and out of touch last week, writes Peta Credlin: failing to discipline Senator Fatima Payman, lionising Julian Assange, and giving the Governor-General a $220k pay rise during a cost of living crisis.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 18: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang shake hands while at the Kaarta Gar-up Lookout in Kings Park before the Australia-China CEO Roundtable on June 18, 2024 in Perth, Australia. Li's visit to Australia aims to strengthen bilateral ties and address outstanding trade and consular issues, including the removal of remaining trade barriers and the release of imprisoned Australian democracy blogger Yang Hengjuno, marking a significant step towards stabilizing the relationship between the two nations. The visit also highlights the growing importance of economic cooperation and the need for dialogue on security concerns, particularly in the context of China's increasing influence in the Pacific region. The visit marks the first high-level diplomatic outreach by a Chinese leader to Australia since 2017. (Photo by Richard Wainwright - Pool/Getty Images)

Credlin: Albo not the man for Australia’s most dangerous time in decades

Anthony Albanese is proving himself to be a weak prime minister and Australians are waking up to the fact, writes Peta Credlin.

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*** BESTPIX *** SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 10: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) greets his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern ahead of a bilateral meeting on June 10, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Jacinda Ardern is the first foreign leader to be hosted by Australia's new Labor government. (Photo by Mark Baker - Pool/Getty Images)

Credlin: It’s Albo, not Giles, who should be targeted over immigration fiasco

When a minister is doing the PM’s bidding as Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is, he can’t be sacked without the PM also sacking himself, writes Peta Credlin.

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