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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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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 19: MP Anthony Albanese arrives at the Union Hall Hotel in Balmain for a press conference on May 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. Albanese announced his plans to run for Labor party leadership following Bill Shorten's announcement he would step down as leader after the party lost the federal election. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Albo has a Setka dilemma on his hands

Of course union boss John Setka is an embarrassment that opposition leader Anthony Albanese wants gone, writes Peta Credlin. But by not finishing him off, Albo illustrates his own impotence.

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Blues players Latrell Mitchell (left) Josh Addo-Carr (centre) and Cody walker look on during the national anthem during Game 1 of the 2019 State of Origin series between the NSW Blues and the Queensland Maroons at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

When will Leftie protestors get a grip?

If the election showed us anything, it’s that Australians have a limited tolerance for the extremes of political correctness. But far from waking up to themselves, our ‘woke’ activists are doubling down, writes Peta Credlin.

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Former Prime Minister and Warringah Liberal candidate Tony Abbott raises his fist as he receives a kiss onstage from his wife Margie after conceding defeat at Manly Leagues Club in Brookvale, Sydney, Saturday, 18 May, 2019. Approximately 16.5 million Australians have voted  in what is tipped to be a tight election contest between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australian Opposition leader Bill Shorten. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Tony Abbott can look back with pride

Life for a conviction politician is never easy but very few have shouldered the attacks like former prime minister Tony Abbott with such magnanimity and resilience, writes Peta Credlin.

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Delcons, take a bow. You have saved Australia

They were ridiculed as ‘deluded conservatives’, or delcons for short, but those who wanted Malcolm Turnbull out of the top job knew voters wanted a government that makes their lives better, not worse, writes Peta Credlin.

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