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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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Gladys Liu met a Koala at the event at Parliament House.Federal politicians came face to face with some of AustraliaÕs most endangered native animals at Parliament House in Canberra as part of the National Threatened Species Day. Picture Gary Ramage

Gladys Liu is the least of our worries

The worst you can say of Gladys Liu is that she has been naive, writes Peta Credlin. But we cannot let that overshadow the Chinese government’s systematic attempts to turn Australians into agents of influence.

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TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson comes out to greet Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 5, 2019. - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Thursday for an early election after a series of votes in parliament tore up his hardline Brexit stance and left him without a majority. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Brexit is a warning alarm for Australia’s future

For Australians, Brexit isn’t really about the whether or not Britain leaves the EU. Instead, it’s what happens when we watch the Establishment conspire to treat democracy with contempt, writes Peta Credlin.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison gives a speech at the NSW Liberal State council meeting at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney, Saturday, September 7, 2019. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Welfare drug-testing is common sense

Australians understand that everyone deserves a fair go. But we also understand that everyone has to have a go too. Especially those who rely on taxpayer funds to get by, writes Peta Credlin.

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Ernest Wong leaves the ICAC in Sydney today (30/08/2019). Pic Liam Driver

Labor’s rot goes to the party’s core

When huge sums of money are being covertly exchanged in plastic shopping bags in a bid to buy political power, you know something is deeply rotten with the political party on the receiving end, writes Peta Credlin.

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Supporters of the Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela rally at the State Library of Victoria to stop the eminent deportation of Nadesalingam, Priya and their daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa. Melbourne. Sunday, August 25th, 2019. (AAP Image/Ellen Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Border protection is bigger than wayward activists

The fast and loose tactics of activists were on display for all to see this week as a Sri Lankan family faced deportation. As was their complete disregard for upholding Australian law, writes Peta Credlin.

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Cardinal George Pell leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Thursday, June 6, 2019. Pell is appealing his conviction for sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s. (AAP Image/Erik Anderson) NO ARCHIVING

Is this really what beyond reasonable doubt looks like?

In a case like that of Cardinal George Pell, where both sides wanted a particular outcome far more than a fair and honest process, justice was never going to be truly served, writes Peta Credlin.

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Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Wyatt’s plans for recognition tread a fine line

Putting legislation through the parliament without ordinary voters having their say on an issue they feel strongly about has ended in disaster for NSW. Scott Morrison and Ken Wyatt ought to take note, writes Peta Credlin.

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Pro-democracy protesters hold signs as they attend a rally in Hong Kong on August 16, 2019. - Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement faces a major test this weekend as it tries to muster another huge crowd following criticism over a recent violent airport protest and as concerns mount over Beijing's next move. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

Australia’s future rests in the Hong Kong protests

It’s true that China trades with Australia because it’s in their interest to do so, but it’s time we begin to consider just how prepared are we as a nation if that changed, writes Peta Credlin.

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Male and female symbols drawn using chalk on a chalkboard

Thanks to the Left, we are losing our right to gender

Transgender people make up 0.05 per cent of the population, yet the left insists on significant changes that will destroy our social and cultural foundations, writes Peta Credlin. We should all be worried.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during a press conference at Town Hall Station in Sydney, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. The State Government announced that day time city testing of Light Rail Vehicles along George Street in the CBD will begin with the first vehicle expected to reach Circular Quay by August. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Sorry, Gladys. The abortion bill will haunt you forever

I don’t know what’s more gutless: Trying to ram through abortion laws or hiding in her office, refusing to even speak on the bill that will now come to define Gladys Berejiklian’s time as premier, writes Peta Credlin.

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