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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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Bill’s Short-on details but Coalition hasn’t won yet

For a bloke who’s campaigned strongly over the past five years, Bill Shorten’s first week on the hustings was a shocker, writes Peta Credlin. But the Coalition still has a huge task ahead.

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10.4.2019.GetUp members will be joined by National Director Paul Oosting and celebrated childrens entertainer Peter Coombe at Moseley Square,Glenelg calling for politicians to show climate leadership in securing a future for our kids.Giant Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott heads. PIC TAIT SCHMAAL.

GetUp!’s guerrilla game plan

Politics in this country used to be about debating the merits of one policy over another, with voters making the final decision, writes Peta Credlin. Sadly, it’s now about shifting Australia’s political ‘centre’ to the left.

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05/03/2019: Julian Burnside, with Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale, announces himself as the new Greens candidate for Kooyong to run against Josh Frydenberg. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

The election questions you need to ask local members

Given that we’re lucky enough to live in a truly democratic nation, we must not take elections — or the opportunity they provide us — for granted. Now is the time for tough questions, writes Peta Credlin.

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01/11/2018: Alex Turnbull getting into an Uber outside his parent's Point Piper Mansion on Thursday evening.Hollie Adams/The Australian

Hell hath no fury like an ex-PM’s scorned son

Clearly not over his father’s loss of the top job, reports are now emerging that Alex Turnbull is advising independents on how to oust sitting Liberal MPs. A sadder political sight is yet to be seen, writes Peta Credlin.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on May 10, 2016 shows a gender neutral sign posted outside a bathroom at Oval Park Grill in Durham, North Carolina. Germany's top court on November 8, 2017 required parliament to legally recognise a "third gender" from birth, potentially making it the first European country to offer intersex people the option of identifying as neither male nor female. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / SARA D. DAVIS

This gender madness has gone too far

Following changes to Tasmanian law, any child over 16 years will be able to change their gender ‘at-whim’, writes Peta Credlin. Can feminists finally see how this gender madness has subverted their gains?

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Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten delivers the 2019-20 Federal Budget Reply speech in the House of Representatives at Parliament House, in Canberra, Thursday, April 4, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Don’t trust this dodgy electric car sales team

Labor has been caught out approaching policy from the perspective of green ideology rather than the practicalities of Australian life, writes Peta Credlin. Just look at Bill Shorten’s electric car promise.

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