1. Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, author, and former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello.
12 Facts About Niki Savva
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Niki Savva grew up in Doveton, an outer suburb of Melbourne.
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Niki Savva attended Doveton Primary and Doveton High School where she was a prefect.
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Niki Savva worked as the Washington correspondent for News Limited.
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The illness and death of her sister Christina at 43 caused Niki Savva to reconsider her career in journalism in 1997, and she accepted a job offer from federal treasurer Peter Costello as his media advisor.
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Niki Savva worked for Costello for six years before joining the staff of prime minister John Howard for three years on Howard's Cabinet Policy Unit.
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Niki Savva resigned from The Australian in June 2021 when the paper opted to commission a column from Peta Credlin to run on the same day as Savva's and started working at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald the following month.
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Niki Savva appears regularly as a panelist on the ABC's Insiders program.
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Niki Savva is married to Vince Woolcock, a Liberal political staffer.
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In 2016, Niki Savva released the book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government outlining the fall of the Abbott government, relating it to Abbott's closeness to his chief of staff, Peta Credlin.
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Niki Savva was criticised by Abbott and Credlin, several journalists, and the ABC's Media Watch for not contacting the subjects of her book for comment on its claims, or giving them a right of reply.
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Niki Savva won the Adult nonfiction prize at the 2023 Book of the Year Awards and the Australian Political Book of the Year for Bulldozed.