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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 26:  Flowers and balloons are left in Saint Ann's Square in tribute to those killed in an explosion at the Manchester Arena earlier this week on May 26, 2017 in Manchester, England. The explosion at the Manchester Arena on the evening of May 22 happened as concert goers were leaving the venue after Ariana Grande had performed. Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack and have confirmed 22 fatalities with many more injured.  (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Weak West must get tougher with jihadis

THE Manchester murders and the release of the coronial report into the Martin Place siege ­reveals the weakness of the Western response to the bloody perpetrators of ­terrorism, Piers Akerman writes.

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So where is Malcolm’s star-spangled manner

THE Australian American ­Association handed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a real trump card with the icebreaking meeting with The Donald at its inspirational commemoration of the Battle of the Coral Sea aboard the USS Intrepid in New York.

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A boy walks by a cross leaning against a wall a day before the reenactment of the Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, in the village of San Mateo, some 50 km north of Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday April 13, 2017. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Christianity attacked at holiest celebrations

SOME Muslim leaders ­entreat their followers not to eat chocolate and to ignore the Easter celebrations. Others set out to murder Christians as they celebrate the holiest of their days, Piers Akerman writes.

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Gender big brothers control our thoughts

IT’S a sad truth those who claimed to be the bullied are among the world’s greatest bullies. None more so than the ­gender confused in pursuit of the destruction of traditional marriage.

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A shocking state of affairs over power

THE NSW government has shown a grave reluctance to endorse the future of the only realistic base load power producers we have — coal-fired power plants — and prefer ­picture opportunities with solar arrays.

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PNG waste stretches neighbourly concern

GLOBE-trotting fashionista Foreign Minister Julie Bishop needs to explain why Australian taxpayers are bankrolling Papua New Guinea’s vanity projects when our own economy is ­wallowing, Piers Akerman writes.

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Only Turnbull can lose the election now

MALCOLM Turnbull delighted his supporters with his withering attack on Bill Shorten during his second Question Time in his new role as Prime Minister but he exposed a vulnerability that begs ­exploitation by both Labor and conservatives during his prime ministership.

Luke Foley opens door to toxic Victorian mate

VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews joins the NSW election campaign today but you can bet he hasn’t brought his friends from the rogue Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) with him.

Bank on Julia Gillard’s inaction

IF you had to decide whether Julia Gillard’s Government was utterly incompetent or merely totally inadequate, the wiser choice would be to plump for abject incompetence.

Time for Mal to man up and stop Chinese

THE submarine defence of the nation has surfaced as a major story but most idiots are ­focused on what will prove to be a fruitless search for an anonymous leaker of sections of a draft section of a Defence ­Department white paper.

Gay push should be kept out of schools

BURWOOD Girls High principal Mia Kumar has failed the parents of her pupils by embracing political propagandists who have seized her school’s agenda. And Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has failed the people of NSW with his lily-livered approach to a serial offender.

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Lefties to blame for a boy on murder charge

WE have had the Redfern Speech, the National Sorry Days, Reconciliation, and the National Apology and the ­annual, sad, Closing the Gap report but just to prove how dismally misguided all of these triumphant symbols of the great and the good’s intentions have been we now have an ­11-year-old Aboriginal boy charged with murder.

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Left’s refugee wails are a boatload of lies

MORAL exhibitionists, who went unseen and unheard when hundreds upon hundreds of so-called asylum seekers — men, women and children — were drowning, were gifted the ABC’s airwaves and the gamut of the Fairfax media to parade their virtue after the High Court ruled the government could lawfully ­return those who sought to ­arrive illegally by boat to Manus Island and Nauru.

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