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Piers Akerman is an opinion columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He has extensive media experience, including in the US and UK, and has edited a number of major Australian newspapers.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 25: Prime Minister Scott Morrison reacts during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on March 25, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. The federal government was on Monday set back by new allegationsÃÂ broadcastÃÂ by the Ten Network after pixelated images of unnamed Coalition advisers allegedly engaging in performing lewd sex acts on the desks of female MPs resulting in a Morrison staff member being sacked last night. Additionally, the ABC Network aired a first hand account by an Australian Parliament security guard of what she witnessed on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in the office of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in early 2019. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Women should be selected for politics on their own merits

Scott Morrison’s brain snap about the possible introduction of quotas to produce more women in the Liberal ranks flies in the face of the party’s most rudimentary principles, Piers Akerman.

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Image from HWT book 'MOMENTS IN TIME'. Portrait gallery. Poet Dorothea Mackellar. Pic: Supplied / Pegg Clarke

Poem which debunked climate change 100 years ago

The ABC and its leftist allies like to say weather extremes are recent phenomena, but a legendary Australian poem written in 1908 shows different, writes Piers Akerman.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 22, 2018 Australia's Finance Minister Mathias Cormann attends a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra. - Australia's former finance minister Mathias Cormann was named the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) chief on March 12, 2021 according to official sources. (Photo by MARK GRAHAM / AFP)

Cormann critics are missing the point

Mathias Cormann’s rise within his chosen country and now globally should be a reminder of the opportunities our nation offers those with will, skill and determination, Piers Akerman writes.

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