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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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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What explains this extraordinary outburst of anti-Semitism from the citizens of a country that had hitherto prided itself on being the model of multicultural success?

Hamas-Israel war has supercharged decline of West

This backsliding into moral relativism and self-loathing reflects the wider intellectual and cultural confusion afflicting free Western countries.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 9, 2023: ÃRally For A Free PalestineÃ protest burn the Israeli flag on the forecourt of The Sydney Opera House in Sydney following the recent outbreak of war between Israel and Palestine.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Hamas-Israel war exposes new depth of self-hatred

Forced to choose between a fellow democracy and an Islamist death cult, more self-confident societies would not have a moment’s ambivalence. And yet here we are.

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11 Dec 2005 Locals and supporters of the Australian way of life at North Cronulla Beach. People of middle eastern appearance were bashed and chased by gangs of thousands after the celebrations turned into angry rioting. crowd nsw police demonstrations - precursor to Sydney riots

Time to snap out of our cultural confusion

The sooner we snap out of this cultural confusion the better. A good start would be identifying those who’ve taken part in anti-Semitic protests, prosecuting those who are citizens and deporting those who aren’t.

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Voters said No, but Albanese still isn’t listening

Anthony Albanese may think it’s a sign of his political integrity to push on with treaty and truth, but such hairsplitting is unlikely to impress the 40 per cent of Labor voters who said No to the voice.

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NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott talks wit an attendee at 'Tony Abbot - Vote No Hunter Region' event at Raymond Terrace Bowling Club on October 05, 2023 in Newcastle, Australia. A referendum for Australians to decide on an indigenous voice to parliament will be held on October 14, 2023 and compels all Australians to vote by law. Early voting began on Oct. 2, with voting getting underway in rural and regional Australia as well. (Photo by Roni Bintang/Getty Images)

Australia must say no to racial division in all forms

Those voting No are not voting against Aboriginal people; they are voting in favour of unity and equality, and voting Yes to keeping our Constitution colourblind.

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