Sarrah Le Marquand

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2,678 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Something To Talk About · Why Peta Credlin wanted Julia Gillard to succeed · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

that the culture's improved and that we don't get away with the things that we do and in matched

Coming up, Peter on the 13 rounds of IVF she kept hidden from almost everyone around her. matched

So Peter, as I said, I wanted to talk a little bit about the chief of staff era. matched

So your profile definitely rose dramatically when starting really at the end of 2009, when Tony Abbott became opposition leader of the Liberal Party, and you were his chief of staff, and then there were three years in opposition, and in 2013 he was elected prime minister. matched

The Abbott government was formed and you w became chief of staff to the Prime Minister. matched

I might just start, because we're not a political podcast. matched

Uh for people that t have never been inside Parliament House, much less the Prime Minister's office, and they go, I know that Peter Credlin was a chief of staff in the Prime Minister's office. matched

I've heard about that. matched

I've seen uh documentaries, I've seen uh fictional uh matched

counterparts of the as you and I both know, there's still plenty of people that think all politics is still like the West Wing or something like that. matched

What was the reality of the day to day job for you as chief of staff? matched

It would seem to me there was a bit of an unobserved contradiction in the fact that you were working for a Prime Minister who was, as you say, caught up in a narrative that the Liberal Party in general, or he specifically as Prime Minister, had a problem with women and then you're there as matched

his female chief of staff. matched

So it was used partly, as you say, some people would have gone, Well, there's obviously not a problem there. matched

But also you're dealing with people accusing the person you work for of sexism, while I would say dealing with quite profound sexism yourself from all sides of the political divide. matched

As you say she was removed by her own party in a leadership spill in june twenty thirteen. matched

We haven't had another female Prime Minister since then. matched

Susan Lee was opposition leader of the Liberal Party for only nine months. matched

She was also replaced by Angus Taylor in a leadership spill earlier this year. matched

Do you think that Australia is ready for a female Prime Minister? matched

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