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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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A Baojun E100 electric vehicle stands plugged in to a charging station outside a SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. Baojun E100 Customer Experience Center, a joint venture between SAIC Motor Corp., General Motors Co. and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Industry Co., in Liuzhou, Guangxi province, China, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. GM and its partners sold 4 million vehicles in China in 2017, about 1 million more than the automaker sold in the U.S. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Green religion’s car plan is a giant failure

IT was bad enough to have the government damage the power sector, but now it’s coming for Australia’s transport sector too, writes Peta Credlin.

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Minister for Jobs Michaelia Cash at Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

What we need now is less drama and more humility

JUST like your own family, political families have their fallouts. But if they don’t get their act together soon there may be no one left sitting at the table, writes Peta Credlin.

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Labor Member for Barton Linda Burney at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, May 24, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Burney’s immigration woes a mess of her own making

WHERE Burney at least tried to play for advantage, the Green’s senator Sarah Hanson-Young just displayed, yet again, her embarrassing ignorance, writes Peta Credlin.

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When did counterculture become the norm?

MOST Australians are proud of our country, but too many people who should know better have lost faith in the values that have made us who and what we are, writes Peta Credlin.

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Jane Prentice at Brookfield. Pic Annette Dew

Liberal’s woman problem is rearing its head again

I’ve spoken many times that the Liberal Party must do better when it comes to women in the parliament. But that doesn’t mean a ‘right’ to a seat based on gender, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to radio host Ollie Peterson at the 6PR studios in Perth, Thursday, April 26, 2018. The federal government has announced a $189 million funding package for three hospital upgrades in WA. (AAP Image/Tony McDonough) NO ARCHIVING

More to Turnbull’s budget move than meets the eye

CHANGING the Medicare Levy in the next federal budget is a wise move if Turnbull wants to get his polls and the coffers back on track, writes Peta Credlin.

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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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