Peta Credlin is among a record amount of women receiving Order of Australia honours for the Queen's Birthday.
Other high-profile female recipients include outgoing Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson, who was the first female head of that department, and Tasmanian judge Barbara Baker. They are among five people appointed Companions of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest honour.
Ms Credlin said the increase in the number of women on the honours list – up to a record 44 per cent – reflected the concerted efforts to get more nominated.The Age“It is just that the recognition hasn’t always been forthcoming. That is now changing. And so it should.”Ms Credlin was the third woman to be chief of staff to a prime minister but the first to join the Order of Australia.
However, she has said she wasn’t consulted on one of Mr Abbott’s most contentious actions, the decision to reinstate knights and dames to the honours system. She again rose to public prominence during Melbourne’s lockdown last year when she questioned Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at lengthReflecting on the reckoning over the past few months about the treatment of women in politics, Ms Credlin says it was the media’s “fixation with a female chief of staff” she found toughest to deal with.
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