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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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Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is seen during a press conference prior to the start of the COAG energy council meeting, at the Sofitel in Melbourne, Friday, April 20, 2018. (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

Energy policy consensus is not what the Libs need

FAILING to get agreement on the National Energy Guarantee could be the only thing that will keep the Turnbull government alive, writes Peta Credlin.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (with Health Minister Jill Hennessy) holds a press conference at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Sunday, April 8, 2018. Premier Andrews announced an extra $50 million will be provided for Victoria's public hospitals to deal with the upcoming flu season. (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

Andrews is only making our drug crisis worse

WHEN injecting rooms are being opened near schools, you have to ask what happened to the message that illegal drugs are dangerous, addictive and could kill you, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is seen at Loy Yang A power station in the LaTrobe Valley, east of Melbourne, Thursday, April 12, 2018. Victoria's brown coal will be converted into hydrogen for export to Japan under a major project unveiled by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The Commonwealth and Victorian governments have each pledged $50 million towards the hydrogen energy supply chain pilot in the Latrobe Valley, which will also be backed by the Japanese government. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Energy is the road to the Coalition’s redemption

HOWEVER they do it, the Coalition must come together. But unity alone will not save them unless there’s serious policy change, writes Peta Credlin.

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PM Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop holding a Press Conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Knifing leaders is no way to govern

AS the PM faces his 30th Newspoll, a loss will have insiders plotting and Turnbull in anguish. The rest of us will be wishing for an end to spills and government that focuses on more important matters, writes Peta Credlin.

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HAZELWOOD, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31: John Darling who has worked at the power station for fifty years leaves Hazelwood Power Station after his final shift on March 31, 2017 in Hazelwood, Australia. Around 750 workers have been left jobless at the end of the final day of the Hazelwood plant's operation. French owners of the Hazelwood Power Station, Engie, announced in November 2016 plans to shut the brown coal fuelled power station, citing lack of commercial viability and environmental reasons. The short notice given to the hundreds of workers who are set lose their jobs has drawn widespread criticism of the plant owners and the State Government from the Latrobe Valley community. The Hazelwood Power Station has been in operation alongside the Hazelwood coal mine for 52 years and will close on 31 March 2017. Hazelwood is regarded as one of the dirtiest coal plants in Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Abandon coal and the lights go out

PARANOIA about the motives of the Monash Forum shows how jumpy the Turnbull camp has become. But supplying electricity is the ultimate essential service and renewables won’t meet demand, writes Peta Credlin.

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Bus union protest with also CFMEU. Pic Annette Dew

Gutless move by Coalition gives unions more power

DESPITE election promises to reintroduce public interest tests for union mergers, the Coalition dumped legislation in the past week. Powerhouse unions will be next and industry is furious, writes Peta Credlin.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media following the release of Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Green's report into the Victorian government's 2014 election campaign in Treasury Gardens in Melbourne, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Victoria's Labor government is sorry for a $388,000 election campaign rort and has repaid the money, but Premier Daniel Andrews won't step down over the scandal embroiling several of his senior ministers. The state ombudsman on Wednesday published a damning report naming 21 Labor MPs, past and present, found to have breached parliamentary guidelines during the party's victorious 2014 election campaign. (AAP Image/Alex Murray) NO ARCHIVING

Has the Coalition forgotten how to fight?

IN Victoria, Matthew Guy is allowing Andrews to get away with murder. Federally, Turnbull isn’t doing much better with his opponents, writes Peta Credlin.

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success smart medical doctor working with operating room as concept

Nurses’ Code of Conduct undermines those who care

NURSES are no longer required to be colourblind; instead, they must see colour and treat patients differently because of it, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a visit to the Wirra Wirra Vineyards in McLaren Vale, Saturday, March 10, 2018. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

Turnbull government is running on empty

THERE are the real-world impacts when our government is absorbed in distractions like sex bans. Not paying enough attention to real issues has created risks to the economy, writes Peta Credlin.

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Labor Senator Kim Carr speaks during Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Personality wars are derailing the real priorities

RATHER than focus on the real issues our politicians are focused on putting out fires and attacking their enemies. And it must stop, writes Peta Credlin.

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