Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, author, and former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello.

[3] The illness and death of her sister Christina at 43 caused Savva to reconsider her career in journalism in 1997, and she accepted a job offer from federal treasurer Peter Costello as his media advisor.

[5] She 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.

[7] In a book about her time as an adviser to Peter Costello, and then to John Howard, Savva described herself as a "conservative leftie".

[10] Savva was criticised by Abbott and Credlin, several journalists, and the ABC's Media Watch[11] for not contacting the subjects of her book for comment on its claims, or giving them a right of reply.