Peta Credlin Centre for Prosthetic Research
A step closer to perfection
While many Australians are well versed in national tragedies such as the Western Australian Emu Wars (1932), the Westgate Bridge collapse (1970), the Granville Train disaster (1977), the Ash Wednesday (1983) and Black Saturday fires (2009), the Eastern Australia floods (2022), and Waleed Aly’s Gold Logie (2016), very few have heard of the 2009 Teeth Capping Tragedy when a dish of zinc phosphate dental cement exploded at a Vaucluse clinic seriously injuring five Sydney socialites.
One of these women was Sky After Dark stalwart, former Chief-of-Staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and popular Phar lap impersonator Pete Credlin who lost a leg after tripping on a carelessly discarded tube of tanning lotion just 7km from the site of the tragedy.
But misfortune has not slowed Peta’s drive to innovate. A long-time sufferer of restless leg syndrome, Peta’s first prosthesis gave her husband splinters and forced him to sleep in asbestos tights. But after he developed acute heat rash Peta decided to take matters into her own hands, dedicating her spare time between tying Prime Minister Abbott’s shoes and translating the Ayn Rand classic Atlas Shrugged into ancient Greek to the study of prosthetics. Her goal was to elevate artificial limbs (and teeth) to high fashion, making them not only functional and splinter and rust resistant, but essential accoutrements for society’s elite.
In 2019, after meeting Dr Truthwright at the annual Portsea Polo Chukka hosted by former AFL supremo Gillon McLaughlin, Credlin moved the research branch of her now thriving prosthetic limb business, Credlin’s Prostheses, to the HHDRS’s Portsea compound where it now fills the space once occupied by the Dame Zara’s Bate and Tackle Shop.
Even though Credlin’s Prostheses main retail outlet is still located at the Sydney studios of Sky News, her Portsea operation boasts an impressive list of new and regular customers inspired by the new prostheses craze promoted by influencers such as Bec Judd whose recently fitted prosthetic arm has been nominated for an Australian Fashion Industry award (best dressed can opener category).
FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY
Having described the NDIS as the land of milk and honey, Dr Truthwright was delighted to engage Sky TV presenter, Peta Credlin to engage in her passion of prosthetic research.
The testing program is a great success. An investment prospectus is due in early 2027.
You can see Peta working on her newly designed solar-powered teeth. Making in-person manual mastication a thing of the past. “Manually chewing 100 times per meal was time and energy inefficient. Unproductive. If this country is to succeed, we need to focus on greater productivity – why not start with the time wasting of slow manual eating and three meals a day,” claims Peta.
Getting a leg up
Peta is also working on a range of augmenting prosthetics targeting affluent and able-bodied investors. As Peta says, “four limbs good – 8 limbs better.”