Audience wins in silly festival boycott
Sydney Festival-goers won’t be missing much from the small group of ignorant performers who withdrew over Israeli sponsorship, writes Piers Akerman.
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Evil acts and dirty secrets come undone
Columnist Piers Akerman recommends these titles – illuminating political secrets and media cover-ups – to add to your summer reading list.
Pandemic response a tyranny of fear, not science
We haven’t been guided by science during the pandemic but we’ve been ruled by pseudoscience and political deception, Piers Akerman writes.
Investigate politicians and health experts
We weren’t all in this together because of petty politicians and the lack of expertise displayed by our so-called health experts, writes Piers Akerman.
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Australia’s national security needs to be addressed
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has recently drawn attention to threats posed by the world’s two most powerful totalitarian regimes, China and Russia. It’s clear that Australia must urgently redefine its approach to national security, Piers Akerman writes.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Grinch that saved Christmas
The uncertainty that dogged Britain since David Cameron first proposed a referendum on Brexit, which increased as his successor Theresa May dithered and prevaricated and continued right up until Thursday’s poll, has evaporated, writes Piers Akerman.
Greenies will take us back into a new Dark Age
Tesla’s Elon Musk provided the first big battery and the taxpayers gave him a handsome profit. Supporters of the project love it but anyone following the detail can immediately see that it can never be anything but a stopgap measure, Piers Akerman writes.
Lefties’ wishful thinking makes Santa Claus seem believable
Perhaps the ultimate believers in wishy thinking are the staff at the ABC and Nine (formerly Fairfax). In their minds, it is also beyond doubt that anyone who wishes to live a better life must be able to enter Australia and be showered with every benefit the taxpayers would provide, Piers Akerman writes.
ALP was nobbled by Shorten’s arrogance
The reasons for the ALP’s loss at this year’s federal election were clear, writes Piers Akerman: polices bound to a tried, discredited and failed ideology — and a leader voters didn’t trust.
Reducing Australia to special interest tribes serves no one
Having rid the nation of laws which defined people by race, there’s now a crowd that wants to reintroduce them and the handing over of the title of Uluru, the big lump known to most Australians as Ayers Rock, is just a hint of what will happen in the future, writes Piers Akerman.
Where’s the promised change from those ‘bastard’ banks?
In regional Australia, banks were once part of the backbone of the small communities but no longer. Now, the actions of one small bank could collapse the rural property market, writes Piers Akerman
You want diversity? How about diversity of opinion?
Extinction Rebellion’s week of protests around the globe is just the latest example of hard-Left brainwashing that calls for diversity … but decries anyone who may have a differing opinion, writes Piers Akerman.
PM right to reject global agenda set to destroy Aussie values
Scott Morrison made it clear that Canberra’s observance of the UN sweeping diktats is over. But whether the Canberra bureaucracy can shake off its internationalist mindset and adjust to the new doctrine is another thing, Piers Akerman writes.
Stokes’ pandering to greenies kick in guts for struggling towns
Planning Minister Rob Stokes should be called to account for overseeing the laws which permitted the IPC to skittle a new mine and kill 1100 desperately needed jobs, writes Piers Akerman.
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