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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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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 2, 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a press conference after the National Cabinet meeting at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Remember leadership? We need it now

I suspect our political leaders have secretly enjoyed the pandemic because it has freed them from the challenge of actual reform.

Peta Credlin

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 11: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (centre) together with State Premiers Annastacia Palaszczuk (left), Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian address the media in the Main Committee Room at Parliament House, on December 11, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's leaders are meeting face to face for the first time in nine months, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison convened 32 virtual meetings of the National Cabinet with premiers and chief ministers since March to coordinate responses to COVID-19. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Leadership lost its way in national cabinet

The Prime Minister has been reduced to chairman of a fractious federation playing state of origin with the nation’s future.

Peta Credlin

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Freedom Day protesters rlly against the Government's Covid-19 restrictions at State Parliament in Melbourne's CBD. Police forcibly arrest protesters. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Police warn protesters after 404 arrests

Victoria Police is ‘disappointed’ that anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne’s CBD ‘again showed disregard for the safety of the broader community’

Angelica Snowden, Richard Ferguson and Rachel Baxendale

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Screen grab from the Victoria hotel quarantine inquiry of Simon Phemister. 22 Sept 2020

‘Not comfortable putting signature on it’

Officials at the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions raised concerns they were being asked to improperly sign contracts.

Peta Credlin

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Hotel Quarantine InquiryThe Hon Jennifer Coate AO

Hotel inquiry must reopen hearings

If Jennifer Coate were trying to let Daniel Andrews off the hook, she could hardly have contrived things better.

Peta Credlin

COMMENTARYCommentary

These life-and-death questions cannot be dodged

Who knew what, when? And why was one security company rushed into the job? The truth matters: 816 Victorians died.

Peta Credlin

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Covid Hotel Inquiry 25/9/20 The Hon Jennifer Coate

Too much we’re not being told

Was Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry out to find the truth or just muddy the waters?

Peta Credlin

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Back to Lib values, finally

Deep in his DNA, Josh Frydenberg has always been a Liberal. His speech last night was proof.

Peta Credlin

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