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Niki Savva

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Niki Savva


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Choli, Cyprus
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Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, known for her political 'insider' books. Born in Cyprus before emigrating with her family as a child, she became a cadet journalist in 1969, while still in her teens. Savva served as political correspondent for The Australian, she led the Canberra bureau of The Herald Sun and then The Age. In 1997 she moved into politics, working for a decade for Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello and Prime Minister John Howard.
Since 2008, Savva has returned to journalism as a columnist for print and television media, presenting insider knowledge of Australia's conservative politics but from a centrist, sometimes progressive, point-of-view. From 2016 to 2025, Savva wrote a series of four insider books on three con
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“Abbott began the 2009 parliamentary year comatose on his office couch, and ended it by winning the Liberal leadership by one vote. Four years later, he was prime minister. Little more than six years later, he was back where he started. All of it wrought by his own hand. Is it any wonder he had trouble coming to terms with it?”
Niki Savva, The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government

“But, that having been said, you know, anyone who reads the canons of English or ancient Greek literature, if you come to the job by the sword, there is a 92.1 per cent chance that that is how you are going out.”
Niki Savva, Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension

“Others had also told Dutton that they could not vote for him because of Abbott.”
Niki Savva, Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension

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