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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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Locals gather with police guarding the perimeter of the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's western suburb of Wakeley on April 15, 2024, after several people were stabbed in the church premises. Australian police arrested a man after several people were stabbed at a church in Sydney on April 15 and emergency services said four people were being treated for non-life threatening injuries. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Rising tide of Islamism is reshaping our way of life

How has an argument over Gaza become such a big issue here in Australia and what does this say about the way our country has changed?

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 8, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese makes some remarks to the media during a International Women's Day at The Lodge in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Nation’s foreign policy is being driven by minority influence

In a new and disturbing first, immigrant communities are now driving Australia’s foreign policy in ways that are at odds with the national interest.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 15, 2021: Police patrol the streets of Melbourne at the start of a 'circuit breaker' lockdown imposed suddenly by the Victorian Government. This is due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in north western Melbourne.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Chris Putnam / Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Chris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Damaging Covid rule demands more than token inquiry

Any new global pandemic rules need debate and clarification fast because right now it’s the bureaucrats negotiating with the WHO – not the politicians we elect.

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BONDI JUNCTION, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 16: Flowers are placed outside Westfield Shopping mall in honour of the victims on April 16, 2024 in Bondi Junction, Australia. Six victims, plus the offender, who was shot by police at the scene, are dead following a stabbing attack at Westfield Shopping Centre Bondi Junction in Sydney on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images) (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Old hatreds are splitting us into a ‘nation of tribes’

By preferencing the causes of a minority, rather than the standards and values of the majority, Australia is now a tinder box. And is this Prime Minister up to putting the matches back in the box?

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FOREIGN MINISTER PENNY WONG - SPEECH TO THE ANU NATIONAL SECURITY COLLEGE - CANBERRA - TUESDAY, 9 APRIL 2024 Picture - Rohan Thomson/ANU

Wong’s Israel speech reveals Labor’s moral cowardice

The government’s sudden support for Palestine says more about Australia’s political morality than Israel’s.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 14, 2024: Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor’s mystery green plan a big red flag for the economy

One of the reasons why the Albanese government seems so bereft of good ideas is because most of the cabinet comprises recycled failures from the Rudd and Gillard cabinets.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIANewsWire Photos MARCH 16, 2022: Dennis Richardson spoke about the implications of Russia's war with Ukraine at the National Press Club in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

For security’s sake, we need spy chiefs in the room

The exclusion of spy heads when the strategic outlook is more fraught than it has been in decades is an unsettling sign Labor isn’t entirely serious about national security.

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Transgender flag in the LGTB Pride Parade in Valencia ( spain

Is this wilful blindness to child abuse?

Australian authorities are almost wilfully blind to the growing view that the routine prescription of puberty-blockers to confused young people is a form of child abuse.

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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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