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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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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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Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel speaks at the Wakeley church on April 28, 2024. Picture: Supplied

Britain’s chaos is a lesson and a warning

Are we rich, selfish countries tainted by racism, for which mass immigration is an act of atonement and reparation? Everywhere, the faultlines are opening.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 29 JULY, 2024: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a Full Ministry Meeting inside the Cabinet Room at Parliament House in Canberra. Pictured are Tanya Plibersek (L) and Tony Burke (R). Picture: NewsWire / David Beach

Tribe trumps nation in this new multicultural missive

Instead of joining Team Australia where everyone accepts that Australia is home and strives to be part of a cohesive community, this new report thinks that we should live in Hotel Australia.

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It’s JD Vance, not the Veep, who’s the real deal

JD Vance is potentially far more consequential than Trump because his life testifies to the idea that America can still be the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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The CFMEU engages in thuggery? Who would’ve thought

Bob Hawke had the moral courage to outlaw the Builders Labourers Federation. Not so Albanese. Just whose side is this PM on?

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British Conservatives made the fundamental mistake of thinking the way to win was to hug the other side rather than to create a contest.

UK shows lurch to left is no way to win votes

In Britain, left voters kept voting for Labour. But right-wing voters deserted the Tories for Reform. These are valuble lessons for the right in Australia.

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