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Peta Credlin
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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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The new test of leadership headed Morrison’s way

The new test of leadership headed Morrison’s way

While the parliamentary Liberal Party is pretty much united behind the Prime Minister, the Liberal Party at large is still divided, writes Peta Credlin. Juggling factions will be Scott Morrison’s next big test.

Malcolm Turnbull trod a path to defeat

Malcolm Turnbull trod a path to defeat

In his attempts to save his job, Malcolm Turnbull tried to use the Governor-General as a kind of human shield. But as everyone who’s ever known him has concluded: “Malcolm’s for Malcolm,” writes Peta Credlin.

How much more will South African farmers have to endure?

How much more will South African farmers have to endure?

We know that the raping, murdering, and pillaging of lands that white South African farmers is facing is real. But still, we do nothing to help. Enough is enough, writes Peta Credlin. It’s time this issue fixed once and for all.

Euthanasia isn’t dying with dignity, it’s suicide

Euthanasia isn’t dying with dignity, it’s suicide

Part of the pitch for euthanasia is that we should humane and progressive enough to be able to help people die when they no longer want to live. But, as a society, aren’t we supposed to be against suicide, asks Peta Credlin.

Albo has a Setka dilemma on his hands

Albo has a Setka dilemma on his hands

Of course union boss John Setka is an embarrassment that opposition leader Anthony Albanese wants gone, writes Peta Credlin. But by not finishing him off, Albo illustrates his own impotence.

Left-wing activists fail to see the light on Adani

Left-wing activists fail to see the light on Adani

Funny how left-wing activists claim to support the underprivileged, yet by protesting the Adani mine, they’re denying a bright future for many poor people, writes Peta Credlin. I want to tell their story.

Adani boss fuelled by giving Indian village children power

Adani boss fuelled by giving Indian village children power

As Queensland’s ­government prepares to sign off on the final approval for the Adani Carmichael coal mine, it’s important Australia understands just what this project will do for the Indian population and struggling villages that don’t have what we take for granted — electricity.

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