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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 Anthony Albanese visits the fire damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea. The PM is looked concerned at the crowd crush while protected by his security team leaving from a side door of the Synagogue still wearing the Kippah after a meeting with community leaders. Picture: David Caird

Well, at least Hamas gave Albo its vote of confidence

Australians want a change of direction, they want to be able to work hard and get ahead, but most of all, they want hope that our nation’s best days are not behind us, writes Peta Credlin.

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Church members remove religious material from Addass Israel synagogue at Ripponlea after an overnight fire. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

PM’s weasel words won’t stop anti-Semitic hate on our streets

The firebombing of a synagogue has laid bare Anthony Albanese’s failure to protect us from the scourge of hatred, imported from offshore, metastasising like cancer in our community, writes Peta Credlin.

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A hairdresser works with a headlamp during a partial blackout in Lviv on November 28, 2024, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia's army on November 28, 2024 launched a massive attack on Ukraine's energy sector, forcing emergency power outages as temperatures dropped to freezing across the country. (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP)

Lights are off and nobody’s home with Chris Bowen

Australians have had enough of paying more and more for power — and then for that power to not be available when they need it, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 09: Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks to members of the media during the Budget lockup at Parliament House on May 09, 2023 in Canberra, Australia. The Albanese government's 2023 budget is expected to focus on economic recovery, healthcare, national security and climate action with a global geopolitical landscape at its most unstable in decades. The Australian economy still facing inflation headwinds with real wages lagging interest rate rises. (Photo by Martin Ollman/Getty Images)

PM to rob piggy bank for his pork barrelling

The Albanese government’s decision to use our Future Fund for investments in its own political priorities is effectively stealing from taxpayers, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 22, 2023: Chris Bowen (pictured with solar panels) and NSW Minister for Energy, Penny Sharpe MLC announce the successful projects of the NSW Capacity Investment Scheme.Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

How modelling exposes the lie of cheap renewables

The next election will be a contest about a subject that matters, because almost nothing is more central to the daily life of a modern economy than reliable and affordable electricity, writes Peta Credlin.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: A supporter holds up a Trump hat during an election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 05, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. John Moore/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Why Trump win is a warning for weak, woke Albo

Donald Trump’s return is a game-changer in the US but, here for Labor, it is yet another sign that the silent majority have found their voice, writes Peta Credlin.

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

‘A-List Albo’ is trashing the ALP’s election chances

The Left elite’s disdain for ordinary people has been on stark display through the Prime Minister’s flights perks saga this week, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese receives a warm welcome in Satapuala Village, Samoa. The Prime Minister is in Samoa for the CHOGM summit. The village “adopted” Australia for the CHOGM summit with each Samoan village representing a different Commonwealth nation during the event. Picture: PMO

Wild ride ahead before likely March election

While the Prime Minister was at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Samoa, back at home, the wheels were continuing to fall off his hapless government, writes Peta Credlin.

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Anthony Albanese and new home artwork

How PM sent his credibility sailing over that clifftop

The PM’s show of indifference to the plight of renters by purchasing a $4.3 million clifftop mansion couldn’t have come at a worse time, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) walks with members of the Melbourne Jewish community during a vigil held on the first anniversary of the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Melbourne on October 7, 2024. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Shameful legacy from poor leadership

It’s hard to credit that it could have happened so quickly, yet with at least six months to go in its first term, the Albanese government looks to be on the verge of disintegration, writes Peta Credlin.

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