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Peta Credlin
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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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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is seen delivering a speech titled '"Why Does Good Government Matter?" at Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, on Thursday, July 18, 2019. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Jacinda Ardern is missing the point yet again

Australia and New Zealand may be allies, but that’s no excuse to allow criminals to enjoy our way of life while obeying none of the laws. A point which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern seems to be overlooking, writes Peta Credlin.

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PM Malcolm Turnbull  holding a Press Conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Malcolm Turnbull trod a path to defeat

In his attempts to save his job, Malcolm Turnbull tried to use the Governor-General as a kind of human shield. But as everyone who’s ever known him has concluded: “Malcolm’s for Malcolm,” writes Peta Credlin.

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