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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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Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) walks with members of the Melbourne Jewish community during a vigil held on the first anniversary of the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Melbourne on October 7, 2024. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Shameful legacy from poor leadership

It’s hard to credit that it could have happened so quickly, yet with at least six months to go in its first term, the Albanese government looks to be on the verge of disintegration, writes Peta Credlin.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 9, 2023: ÃRally For A Free PalestineÃ protest burn the Israeli flag on the forecourt of The Sydney Opera House in Sydney following the recent outbreak of war between Israel and Palestine. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Weakness allows hate to surge among us

As a free nation, we simply cannot continue to allow our streets to be controlled, and people’s lives to be disrupted, by thuggish activists who hate our country, writes Peta Credlin.

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Negative gearing fight is all about a Greens deal

Given that more taxes on landlords will make the rental crisis worse, not better, why is Labor dabbling with negative gearing again? Short answer, the Greens, writes Peta Credlin.

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Construction of Queensland's biggest social and affordable housing project of 490 homes will begin next week, on the site of the former Cairns drive in theatre at Woree. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a press conference on the project, which will see 245 social and 223 affordable houses built, in addition to 22 specialist disability apartments. Picture: Brendan Radke

Labor rats abandoning Albanese’s sinking ship

On every score, the federal government is taking us in the wrong direction – and even old Labor stalwarts know it too, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - September 14, 2024: Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese speaks at the ACT Labor Campaign launch in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Why PM is a real Albo-tross around our necks

With a first term government struggling in the polls, with its primary vote well down even on the last election’s record low, many voters are starting to think they’ve been dudded, writes Peta Credlin.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - September 4, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers holds a press conference on National Accounts data at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

We owe, we owe, so off to opposition Jim must go

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, using clever spin to mask his failures, is all about his political reputation at the cost of your family’s financial survival, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wears a floral head piece while signing agreements with Prime Minister of Tuvalu Feleti Teo for the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union to come into force at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Leaders from Pacific Island nations are gathering in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

A crowning moment of stupidity from Labor

As Australians, we’ve prided ourselves on being ‘the clever country’ or ‘the Lucky Country’ but, with a dumb enough government, even the most fortunate country in the world will run out of luck, writes Peta Credlin.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 9 , 2024: L to R: Member for McNamarra Josh Burns, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Immigration and multi-culturalism Andrew Giles. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Sydney Jewish Museum to announce the appointment of Jillian Segal as a special envoy on antisemitism. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Gazan visa scheme is a sign of PM’s desperation

Asking legitimate questions about why we are letting Gazans into Australia without proper security checks isn’t racist at all – and anyone trying to claim it is, has something to hide, writes Peta Credlin.

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Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus celebrate on October 7, 2023, after fighters from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Labor shamefully trading visas for votes

For Labor to contemplate giving thousands of permanent visas to people from Gaza looks shamefully akin to visas for votes, disqualifying the government from re-election, writes Peta Credlin.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess speak during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, August 5, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Why this could be our worst government ever

The Albanese government is in a lot of trouble – and the biggest albatross around Labor’s neck is a Prime Minister not up to the job of leading when we face serious challenges, writes Peta Credlin.

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