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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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Australian Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash speaks during Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Cash is not the powerhouse I thought she was

I’VE been the subject of baseless rumours and it is debilitating. They follow you everywhere and hurt everyone you love, writes Peta Credlin.

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Barnaby Joyce during a press conference in Armidale, New South Wales, Friday, February 23, 2018. Mr Joyce has resigned from the leadership of the Nationals Party as his party investigates an allegation of sexual harassment which he denies. (AAP Image/Marlon Dalton) NO ARCHIVING

Why this has been the Coalition’s very worst week

TURNBULL’S lost the bloke who would defend him when others wouldn’t. Meanwhile, his ministers busy themselves piling on Abbott whenever he raises a legitimate issue, writes Peta Credlin.

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Mining magnet and former MP Clive Palmer speaks to media as he leave the Supreme Court after sitting a whole day session in Brisbane, Monday, 30 October, 2017. Liquidators are trying to secure court orders to freeze more than $200 million worth of Mr Palmer's assets. (AAP Image/Regi Varghese) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Clive Palmer has always been a blowhard

AS he continues to dodge responsibility for the failings of Queensland Nickel one thing becomes inherently clear about Clive Palmer, writes Peta Credlin.

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Senator Jim Molan being sworn-in, in the Senate Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra.

Greens’ attack on Molan a disgrace

BY attacking Jim Molan in the reprehensible manner in which they did, the Greens attacked not just the man but the uniform, writes Peta Credlin.

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Labor Senator Sam Dastyari making another statement to the Senate Chamber after earlier resigning as Labor's Deputy Whip, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Sellout Sam Dastyari is finished

IT’S obvious that Senator Sam Dastyari is not fit to sit in the parliament, writes Peta Credlin. And the only person who can’t see he’s finished is Bill Shorten.

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PM Malcolm Turnbull speaking at a press conference in the PM Courtyard at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Turnbull crisis finally at breaking point

SOMEHOW, somewhere, the ordinary Australian family has been forgotten by our federal politicians, writes Peta Credlin.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 22: Jaala Pulford is congratulated by Harriet Shing MP and Fiona Patten MP as the bill passes inside of the Parliament of Victoria after the Upper House voted to pass historic euthanasia laws on November 22, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. After a marathon 28-hour special sitting, the upper house members voted to pass the historic laws 22 votes to 18. Victoria will be the first state in Australia to offer an assisted dying regime. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Euthanasia is not the mark of a civilised society

PERSONAL experience shouldn’t be a factor in deciding something as fraught as euthanasia, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wears a yellow cricket hat as he receives members of the Australian Women's Cricket Ashes team during a breakfast event at the Lodge in Canberra, Wednesday, November 22, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Why Turnbull is the Liberals’ Kevin Rudd

I’VE worked for one, and watched the other closely, and Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd are deeply flawed mirror images of one another, writes Peta Credlin.

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PM Malcolm Turnbull holding a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

The Turnbull Government now a vortex of shambles

CHAOS is swirling around him, and still, even with a by-election now looming, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull cannot grab the reigns and take control, Peta Credlin writes.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Malcolm Turnbull says household power bills would fall by an average $110 to $115 a year under his

Turnbull’s energy policy an election death warrant

LIKE so much else, Malcolm Turnbull’s latest energy plan is a conspiracy by the insiders against the outsiders, Peta Credlin writes.

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