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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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DAILY TELEGRAPH JUNE 12, 2023. Alan Jones in his home at Circular Quay. Picture: Adam Yip

The Alan Jones allegations are not the man I know and respect

Peta Credlin asks, what has happened in this country when allegations go first to the media and not the police? Read this week’s column.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 1, 2023: Brittany Higgins leaves the Federal Court on Friday. Bruce Lehrmann is suing Channel 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson after TenÃs The Project aired an interview in which Brittany Higgins alleged she had been raped. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short

Credlin: Why Higgins’ $2.445m payout needs a closer look

The failure of the federal government to test claims that had been hotly disputed in court before hastily awarding Brittany Higgins $2.445m is little short of bizarre, writes Peta Credlin.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 30, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Credlin: Albo looks low and weak over Dutton smear

With the parliamentary year drawing to a close, even diehard supporters are starting to worry that the Albanese Government is in serious trouble, writes Peta Credlin.

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Daily Telegraph 25/11/22 Minister for Home Affairs Clare O Neil holds a press conference at the Fairfield council chambers with local federal member Chris Bowen and local Mayors. picture John Grainger

Credlin: Labor is all compassion but where is the care for us?

Misplaced compassion is not a very good basis for running a country, writes Peta Credlin, and Labor’s obvious hesitations in dealing with the foreign criminals released into the community have done the government no favours.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 17: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese listens as President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the APEC Leaders Retreat on the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Week at Moscone Center on November 17, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC Summit takes place through November 17. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kent Nishimura / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Credlin: Albo absent as Labor loses its way

On issues big and small, this government is either wrongheaded or confused and it’s decision-making seems to have more to do with political calculation than the long-term national interest, writes Peta Credlin.

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Jet setting Albo finally back on home soil

Credlin: Absent Albo needs to focus on the hate at home

Until it actually happened, a large Australian crowd chanting ‘gas the Jews’ would have been unimaginable, writes Peta Credlin. It’s time the PM stepped in to stop the wave of anti-Semitism washing over our nation.

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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - NCA NewsWire Photos - 25 OCTOBER, 2023: President Joe Biden and AustraliaÃÂ¢Ãâ¬Ãâ¢s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese walk along the White House Colonnade toward the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House, on October 25, 2023, in Washington. Picture: NCA NewsWire / POOL / Evan Vucci / AFP

Credlin: Out-of-touch Albo doesn’t know whose side he’s on

Anthony Albanese political judgment needs to be called into question as he makes one bad decision after another, writes Peta Credlin.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWIRE Photos SEPTEMBER 27, 2023: No voters in front of protestersâVOTE NOâ Campaign Event with Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine in Brisbane.Picture: NCA NewsWIRE / John Gass

Credlin: How people of Australia found their voice again

In rejecting Labor’s divisive Voice, ordinary everyday Australians found theirs and the Albanese Government should face up to the fact that the people got it right and it got it wrong, writes Peta Credlin.

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

Credlin: Overwhelming No vote was a Yes for united Australia

Launching a referendum campaign without a clear message beyond it’s ‘the right thing to do’ was the most reckless political adventure we have ever seen, and Australians responded with a resounding No, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 28 2023. Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese poses for a photo on stage with Yes Campaign co-chair Rachel Perkins, veteran journalist Ray Martin and Inner West Council mayor Darcy Byrne, at The West Says Yes event at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville, in support of the indigenous voice to parliament. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Credlin: A Ray of light shines on Yes camp’s nasty attacks

As the debate around the Voice gets more abusive, with Ray Martin joining the fray this week, what is even more evident is that PM Anthony Albanese is clueless, writes Peta Credlin.

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