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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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SHANXI, CHINA -NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA, HONG KONG, MACAU, TAIWAN OUT) Smoke billows from stacks as a Chinese woman wears as mask while walking in a neighborhood next to a coal fired power plant on November 26, 2015 in Shanxi, China. A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the toxic pollutants widely cited by scientists and environmentalists as the primary cause of global warming. China's government has publicly set 2030 as a deadline to reach the country's emissions peak, and data suggest the country's coal consumption is already in decline. The governments of more than 190 countries are expected to sign an agreement in Paris to set targets on reducing carbon emissions in an attempt to forge a new global agreement on climate change. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

UN climate summit want us to shut up and pay up

Australia has been silenced and banished to the naughty corner at the UN climate summit next week, writes Peta Credlin. So why are we still attending when massive emitters China and India get rewarded?

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is seen at University High in Melbourne, Wednesday, September 11, 2019. The Premier announced free pads and tampons will be available to girls at Victoria's state schools next year as part of a $20 million government program. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Spare us the empty words — show us some action

For all the money our politicians are paid, you have to ask ‘for what?’ From the Prime Minister down, there’s plenty of talk. But how much real change is happening to make people’s lives better, writes Peta Credlin.

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Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese watches Deputy Labor Senate Leader Kristina Keneally during a press conference in Brisbane, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

How can Labor learn if they refuse to take the blame?

I’ve been told “Albo” is biding his time to let his people work out their frustrations from the unlosable election. I’m not sure I buy it, writes Peta Credlin. Labor still blindly refuses to accept any responsibility for the loss.

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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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