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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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WARNING MAN CHARGED - GET LEGAL APPROVAL. Astro Labe, 38, of North Hobart, is accused of assaulting former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

Headbutt reaction highlights mess our society is in

IF we can’t take the word of a former prime minister over a c-bomb dropping hater, then we’ve lost a lot of what once made this country great, writes Peta Credlin.

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FILE - In this Saturday, June 24, 2017, file photo, a Tesla car recharges at a charging station at Cochran Commons shopping center in Charlotte, N.C. On Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, Tesla Inc. announced that more charging stations are on the way. The stations will be installed at places such as supermarkets and shopping centers, and in cities like Chicago and Boston. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Turnbull’s lose-lose electric car farce

THE $100 million we’re spending on electric car subsidies will end up in the pockets of the rich and won’t reduce our emissions, writes Peta Credlin.

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Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, September 7, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Dutton’s citizenship reforms are fair and decent

PETER Dutton’s citizenship test plans are sensible. The wreckers inside and outside his party have lost touch in the Canberra bubble, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Malcolm Turnbull has sought advice on how to extend the life of a number of coal-fired power stations which are scheduled to close over coming decades. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Coal could keep Turnbull in the Lodge

TURNBULL is boosting the government’s morale with his coal rhetoric. Now he must match it with tough policy that’s sharply different to Labor’s, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during his tour of the Snowy Hydro Tumut 2 power station during his visit to the Snowy Mountains region to give an update on Snowy Hydro 2.0, on Monday, August 28, 2017. (AAP Image/Fairfax Pool, Alex Ellinghausen) NO ARCHIVING

Energy policy needs perspective, not PR

TURNBULL must get serious about energy policy or he’s gone by Christmas, writes Peta Credlin. Hollow PR exercises don’t cut it anymore.

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The burqa has no place in Australia. Ban it

The burqa has no place in Australia. Ban it

THE burqa is seen as a method of dehumanisation by men over women under the shonky guise of religion. Not to mention it’s a security risk, writes Peta Credlin.

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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2014, file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference, in Sydney. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, that comments by Abbott in a speech last week that the conservative government risked a

At the very least, Abbott is loyal to his party

MALCOLM Turnbull must somehow heal the rifts he’s created. He could start by using Tony Abbott’s firepower instead of fighting it, writes Peta Credlin.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers an address at the 59th Liberal Party Federal Council Meeting in Sydney, Saturday, June 24, 2017. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Turnbull has no chance of fixing his poll slump

BEING more popular than Bill Shorten is hardly a feat, but Turnbull doesn’t have much else to cling to thanks to his Labor-lite strategy, writes Peta Credlin.

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4/05/17 Loy Yang A power station in the Latrobe Valley. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Climate change zealots need to get real

THE biggest deniers in the whole climate change debate are those who think we can have affordable power, lower emissions and a reliable network. We can’t, writes Peta Credlin.

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07/04/2017 Members of GetUp! with two donkeys in Adelaide as the lobby group Òcalls outÓ Senator Nick XenophonÕs support for business tax cuts. Kelly Barnes/The Australian.

Call out GetUp! for what it is — a political party

ANYONE who values a fair and transparent democracy needs to see GetUp! for what it is: a political player that exists to fight conservatives, writes Peta Credlin.

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