Peta Credlin lashes out at critics

“I don’t say that’s all of the problems that were happening with the Abbott government but what I do know is that it is really gutless of some of the current Liberal government to blame everything that’s happened in the last two years on Peta Credlin”.

This formerly-mysterious political backroom player has a reassuring voice – which didn’t waver as she described what a tough couple of weeks she’s had, and how her friends outside politics had propped her up emotionally.

She did not bring down the Abbott administration, and if she had a role it wasn’t because she was a woman who faced gender intolerance or because she was considered bossy, as opposed to strong. If I was a guy, I wouldn’t be a micromanager, I’d be across my brief.

Peta Credlin lashed out at journalists and cabinet ministers after a tough week following the leadership spill.

‘Politics is a hard business, ‘ he told Nine Network.

The covert is “groups of men” going for dinner at the end of the day and not thinking to ask anyone else, or walking into a room and “being made to feel where your place is at the table”.

Similarly, sexism has not been the whole story behind the attacks on Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, but they have been part of the story.

Ms Credlin said she never wanted a public profile.

“I refuse to be defined by insider gossip from unnamed sources where no-one has the guts to put their name to it”.

Today show host Karl Stefanovic speaks to Peta Credlin pictured at the Australian Women’s Weekly Women of the Future event.

“And if you’re a cabinet minister or a journalist and you’re intimidated by the chief-of-staff of the prime minister then maybe you don’t deserve your job”, Ms Credlin said.

Liberal frontbencher Stuart Robert says he had a “good blue” with Peta Credlin but generally got on well with her.

Credlin also disposed of any assumption she was to pursue a career as a Federal MP.