Peta Credlin

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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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos September 3, 2023: Professor Megan Davis during a press conference for the Uluru Dialogue voice campaign at the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Collingwood. Picture NCA NewsWire / Aaron Francis

If this bill passes, say goodbye to right of dissent

In defeating the voice, Australians actually found theirs. The ‘silent majority’ was silent no more. Perhaps that’s why the PM is so eager to silence free speech.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 06: Protesters march through the CBD on October 06, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Organizers of pro-Palestine protests in Sydney are set to proceed with a rally on Sunday, October 6, despite legal attempts by police to prohibit the gatherings due to safety concerns related to anticipated crowd sizes and potential disruptions. The following day, a vigil is scheduled to honor victims of violence in Gaza, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks, which has drawn criticism from government officials who deem the timing "extremely provocative". Protesters also planned to gather for similar events in Melbourne. (Photo by Roni Bintang/Getty Images)

Pro-Palestine rallies are testing the limits of the silent majority

If some of us can’t see that supporting terrorism is wrong, if we can’t unite in condemning the slaughter of October 7, then what social glue have we left?

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Israeli soldiers work on tanks at a staging area in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Who would you rather be, Israel or Ukraine?

Once, an alliance with the US meant a country could not be attacked with impunity. Now, it’s more likely to mean an American ally will have its self-defence interfered with – seriously.

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Deeming saga a tale of gutless Liberals and bullied conservatives

As Peter Dutton has shown, even in Victoria the Liberals can be competitive. If only John Pesutto had shown as much fight against Labor as he has against Moira Deeming.

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Zali Steggall, Peter Dutton, Allegra Spender, Tony Abbott, Simon Holmes a Court.

Divisiveness, dishonesty will unseat the teals

Labor-lite Liberals generally end up alienating traditional Lib voters without winning over ALP ones. Voters normally prefer the genuine article to pretenders.

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For too long, Labor has failed to deal with the Greens

Labor has appeased the Greens for far too long

In the same way John Howard realised One Nation would totally discredit mainstream conservatism modern Labor needs to go to war with the Greens.

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Canberra, Australia - February 22 2019:The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra Parliamentary Zone Australia Capital Territory. Activists claim to represent the political rights of Aboriginal Australians.

The voice was defeated … so, why do we carry on accepting Indigenous separatism?

As long as our mental landscape is dominated by manifestations of Indigenous separatism the voice will simply be a battle won in the lost war for a united Australia.

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Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle leaving court in the Giggle v. Tickle hearing. Founder of the female-only networking app Giggle for Girls Sall Grover is being sued for discrimination by male trans rights activist Roxanne Tickle (who identifies as a woman) after Grover removed him from her app on the basis he is a man. Jane Dempster/The Australian

Tickle vs. Giggle: Rights of girls and women deserve better than this

If last week’s Federal Court decision goes unchallenged, then officially sex is no longer anchored in biology, at least for the purposes of the Sex Discrimination Act.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 19, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

We may live to regret this hasty call on Gaza visas

Do we accept immigrants because we’re a decent country that welcomes people seeking a better life? Or must we accept immigrants because we’re a rich country with a duty to atone for our racist past?

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Hawke and Keating, unlike this generation of Labor leaders, understood that private business was the engine of wealth creation and the best way to help workers was for employers to succeed.

ALP’s reckless ways shame the party’s own history

Whatever their mistakes, Hawke and Keating, unlike this generation of Labor leaders, understood that private business was the engine of wealth creation and the best way to help workers was for employers to succeed.

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