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. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to the 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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MelburniansÃ¢â¬â¢ beloved Moomba roars back into life with big crowds by the Yarra River and in the rides area. View from the Chants King of Fun Ferris Wheel (PLEASE CREDIT). Picture: David Caird

Country built on grit and hard work goes into meltdown

Don’t get me wrong, Australia is still the best country on earth to live, thanks to our forebears. But does this generation have the strength and the judgment to keep it that way?

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 29, 2024: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Finally, an election fight over serious policy

If the Opposition Leader wanted a fight over the nuclear energy policy, it seems he’s going to get it. And that’s no bad thing for an opposition.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 26, 2024: Dr Andrew Forrest AO, Global Business and Philanthropic Leader, addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on "Power Shift: Why stepping beyond fossil fuels will secure our future (and not doing it will destroy it)". Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Lib true believers stand firm against false net-zero gospel

Just like the voice, the ordinary Australian has had enough of our government’s energy shambles and, electorally, things are looking more volatile than ever.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference following a visit to Thornlie TAFE in Perth, Monday, February 19, 2024. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

Make no mistake, PM’s resolve on the line over return of boat arrivals

The last time Australia confronted a resurgence of illegal boat arrivals I had a seat at the table, and two things have always stuck in my mind from that time.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 14, 2024: Andrew Giles, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Inept Giles shows Albanese is the true weak link

A PM’s main job is to manage his ministers and to replace them if they’re not up to it. Albanese must own the outcomes of his poor performers.

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Labor's House of Lords: The former ALP figures running our superannuation industry, from left to right; Nicola Roxon, Wayne Swan, Greg Combet, Bill Kelty and Cath Bowtell.

ALP’s super-sized power grab

Thanks to the union-dominated super funds, there’s a giant green-left octopus with tentacles into every corner of the economy.

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Lib-wrecking egos exposed at last for all to see

Some days, I honestly don’t know how I managed to survive. The ABC’s distorted documentary Nemesis tells only half the story.

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Thongs and sunglasses in sand on a beach, Australia day concept

Australia Day is a true celebration of the positive

As a nation, regardless of our individual ancestry, we need to get over the epidemic of breast-beating that marks the lead-up to Australia Day.

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Leadership goes AWOL as Labor limps into summer

This PM has always seemed fair dinkum about his mission in life being to ‘fight Tories’. It’s just that being an effective prime minister requires so much more than that.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 27, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dutton’s time to strike is now as PM bungles policy

There’s one forecast that’s becoming easier to make: that Anthony Albanese will lead a one-term government.

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