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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 apology mania is wrong and must stop, says Peta Credlin.

This perpetual grievance culture must end

We have created an Aboriginal grievance industry that needs to perpetuate victimhood to justify its continued existence, to build platforms of power.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 26, 2025: Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Bowen is a gift but the Libs have to get their house in order

Nothing unites a political party more than the sense that it’s now in a fight with the other side rather than with itself.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 19, 2025. New Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson at a press conference with Brett Beasley who is the co-founder of the Jack Beasley Foundation. BrettÃs son Jack aged 17 was killed in a knife attack on the Gold Coast in 2019. Picture : NewsWire/Ian Currie

Lazy Liberal team needs to pull its weight

It has been obvious for a long time that Victoria is a failing state after almost three decades of rule by the Labor Party.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 11, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley during the 2025 Remembrance Day National Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Libs have no choice but to bite bullet on net zero

Sussan Ley will have to become a tough political warrior, capable of overturning an elite consensus if changing the policy is also to mean a lasting change in the Liberals’ fortunes.

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Liberals’ net-zero showdown now a question of survival

If Labor can dump the first female prime minister, then the Liberals can surely dump anyone driving them off a cliff, wearing high heels or not.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 20, 2025: Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan holds a press conference at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Picture: NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Beware: ALP ruin in Victoria risks nationwide breakout

Victoria has become the template for Labor governments everywhere. This means higher taxes, more regulation and the triumph of climate and identity politics.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 09, 2025: Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, Minister for Treaty and First Peoples Natalie Hutchins and the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria Co-Chairs make an announcement. Picture: NewsWire/ David Crosling

Indigenous treaty push defies the voice vote

The likely establishment of a First Peoples’ Assembly in Victoria is justified by a cartoon caricature of Australian history that was rejected by the electorate in the Voice referendum.

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Sussan Ley, Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Price.

Hastie makes a stand for our core values

Andrew Hastie’s resignation from the opposition frontbench opens up a struggle for the soul of the Liberal Party. At a deeper level, though, it’s really a struggle for the soul of Australia.

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Sydney, Australia, NewsWire, Sunday, 7 August 2022. Climate protest at Town Hall. Thirty environment, union and community groups, calling for an immediate stop to the huge expansion of fossil fuel mining planned across Australia. The rally demanding First Nations justice, 100% publicly owned renewable energy by 2030, an end to anti-protest laws and the logging of native forests. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Follow the money: plot to sabotage nation’s prosperity

The green agenda in this country has never been about the planet; it’s all about a funding stream to destabilise capitalist economies and finance the broader left agenda.

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US President Donald Trump speaks at the general debate of the UN General Assembly. Over 140 heads of state and government are expected to attend the world's largest diplomatic event over several days.

Like it or not, President Trump nails it on immigration and climate

Donald Trump’s UN speech wasn’t so much a salvo as it was a bunker-busting bomb at the very epicentre of a global governance structure that is crippling Western civilisation.

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