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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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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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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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