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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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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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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reacts during House of Representatives valedictories at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, December 5, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Morrison’s long-term success hangs on what comes next

Now that Scott Morrison is the undisputed top-dog of Australian politics, he needs to demonstrate that he’s more than just a campaign marketing machine, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Energy Minister Angus Taylor speaks during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, November 28, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Rarely has parliament looked more out-of-touch

While many Australians are battling the after-effects of crushing natural disasters, the government is obsessing over phone calls to friends and decimal points. It’s shameful, writes Peta Credlin.

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Senator Jacqui Lambie with Pauline Hanson before the vote on the Ensuring Integrity Bill in the Senate chamber on Thursday 28th November 2019. Picture Gary Ramage

Union bill defeat highlights the problem of the senate

The dysfunction between the lower and upper houses in parliament reared its head again this week and raised questions about what to do going forward, writes Peta Credlin.

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04/11/2019. Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer as he hand down the bank's full year profit results. Jane Dempster/The Australian

Westpac child sex scandal should see heads roll

If Westpac really didn’t know what some of their customers were up to, it was incompetent. And if it did know, or had reasonable suspicions, it was shameful that no action was taken, writes Peta Credlin.

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Terrorist truths have been exposed

New findings this week confirm not only who it is that considers terrorism to be acceptable, but also how urgent the task of eradicating extremism is, writes Peta Credlin.

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bnb12/2/19: Gerry Harvey and Katie Page at the Harvey Norman store in Auburn in western Sydney. John Feder/The Australian

Shareholder activists show the danger of the woke agenda

Harvey Norman CEO Katie Page should be a pin-up to everyone who demands more women in the boardroom. Instead, a rogue group is trying to oust her, writes Peta Credlin.

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Firefighters backburn along Putty Road in Colo Heights in Sydney, Saturday, November 16, 2019. High temperatures, low humidity and gusty winds are threatening NSW this weekend, with severe fire danger ratings for regions in the north of the state. (AAP Image/Jeremy Piper) NO ARCHIVING

Political scare tactics can’t divide the Aussie spirit

While the Greens Party dedicates its time laying blame for the most recent bushfires, the rest of the country is busy actually helping those at their greatest time of need, writes Peta Credlin.

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