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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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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 16, 2023: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, holds a doorstop in Wantirna with the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles and Labor's candidate for Aston Mary Doyle. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

Credlin: Albo and his inept ministers have no credibility on migration

The Albanese government has proven it has no idea on how to rein-in out-of-control migration and it is time to sack the ministers responsible for the mess, writes Peta Credlin.

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Credlin: Why the next election will be a debate about nuclear

As Peter Dutton is determined to end a nuclear ban the Albanese government is all for, the next election is going to be a battle over nuclear energy, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 13, 2024: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Credlin: Dutton’s clear strategy can take down Albo

After a decade when both sides were fighting over personalities, it’s now clear that, in Peter Dutton, the Coalition has a leader who’s going to make a fight of things, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 12, 2024: Director-General of Security in charge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess appears before the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Additional Estimates at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Credlin: Impotent Labor must act now on terror threat

As important as it is to guard against espionage, the real news today is the terrorist attack we could face tomorrow, writes Peta Credlin.

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June 2021 new shoot - Peta Credlin, Sky News anchor. Picture: Sky News

Credlin: Importing potential terrorists is never clever

Are terrorist-supporting, atrocity-approving people really those we should be permitting into the country when anti-Semitism has never been more rife, asks Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 8, 2023: Malcolm Turnbull AC, Australia's 29th Prime Minister & Lucy Turnbull AO, Urbanist, Businesswoman, Philanthropist & Former Mayor of Sydney deliver the 2023 Australian Institute of Architects Griffin Lecture at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Credlin: Turnbull, Morrison’s treachery exposed

Both sides of politics are plagued by people who are “operators” rather than “believers”, and the only way to save the Liberal Party is for members to take back control, writes Peta Credlin.

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An Australian Army Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter from the 1st Aviation Regiment based in Darwin. Photographs from Exercise Vigilant Scimitar 2022, the 16th Aviation Brigade Foundation War Fighting activity featuring attack helicopters at the Ingham Aerodrome on Sunday. Photograph: Cameron Bates

Credlin: The problem confronting our defence force

While Australia is spending $50bn a year on the armed forces, there is serious doubt that we have effective military capability in a world that has become increasingly dangerous, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: NewsWire Photos: JANUARY 16 2024: Minister Chris Bowen addresses the media with The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, Premier Chris Minns and Assistant Minister Jenny McAllister in a press conference in Northmead in Sydney today. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Credlin: Why it’s dangerous having Bowen in charge of electricity grid

With energy security in the hands of the bloke who attacked investment homes and retirees when treasurer, and blew up our borders when immigration minister, it’s three strikes and out for Chris Bowen, writes Peta Credlin.

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Premier Peter Malinauskas , Education Minister Blair Boyer and Royal Commissioner and former Prime Minister Julia Gillard release of the final report of the royal commission into Early Childhood Education and Care. 27th August 2023. Picture: Brett Hartwig

Why Labor has fallen back on its class-war instincts

When circumstances change, the PM’s commitments change, even if that risks setting up a yawning truth deficit for his government, writes Peta Credlin.

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Show Albo we are not all ashamed to live here

The Federal Government doesn’t seem to understand that pride in our country matters – and with that should go a willingness to stand up for our values, writes Peta Credlin.

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