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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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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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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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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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High Court’s ruling sets an impossible double standard

This week’s troubling High Court decision not only suggests that Australians are not all equal before the law, but also shows how willing some are to override government decisions, writes Peta Credlin.

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A No Unleaded sign at a petrol station in Moruya NSW on 2 January 2020. Picture by Sean Davey.

Bushfires should make us reassess electric car craze

As people lined up to get fuel to evacuate fire regions over summer, you have to wonder what would’ve happened if they’d had to wait for an electric vehicle charger, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack speak during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 6, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

McCormack’s cabinet picks only further dysfunction

In excluding Matt Canavan from the Coalition’s cabinet, Nationals leader Michael McCormack has only made Scott Morrison’s headache greater in the long run, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at the Sydney CPO in Sydney, Saturday, February 1, 2020. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has increased its travel advice for China to level 4 - do not travel - and foreign travellers who have left or passed through mainland China will be denied entry to Australia, as a result of the coronavirus. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Fear mustn’t dictate Australia’s coronavirus response

China may be one of Australia’s biggest trade partners, but keeping people safe in the face of the coronavirus must be the main motivator of the government’s decisions, writes Peta Credlin.

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No debate — January 26 the perfect day to celebrate

The annual outcry over Australia Day may have been muted by the bushfires this year, but the reasons why we should celebrate January 26 are as strong as ever, writes Peta Credlin.

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