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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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Menzies would not recognise today’s Liberal party

Legendary Liberal PM Robert Menzies would not recognise the party today, and claims to his legacy from its modern leaders are nonsense, writes Piers Akerman.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos: 19 OCTOBER 2020.Sussan Ley during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Why are emotional teens forming our policies?

The Morrison government must challenge the pseudoscientific opinion touted in a recent Federal Court case, or policy will be driven by uninformed and emotion-driven teenagers.

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Real peace requires a truth-telling liberals abhor

Fundamental philosophical reform must occur before lasting peace can be achieved in the Middle East, writes Piers Akerman.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 14, 2021. Federal leader of the opposition Anthony Albanese talks to the media at DV Connect in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jono Searle

Labor needs a miracle at the next election

With an ineffective federal leader and an invisible state one, the Labor Party must replicate Scott Morrison’s miracle win of 2019 if it hopes to gain government, writes Piers Akerman.

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Look for another way out if China won’t accept Darwin Port deal

Sabres are rattling over the Shandong Landbridge Group’s 99-year lease on the commercial port in a deal. What’s happened to cool-headed diplomacy? Piers Akerman asks.

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Xiye Bastida speaks at TED-Ed Weekend at TED World Theater, February 2020, New York, NY.Picture: Ryan Lash

Peak stupidity as leaders lectured by teenagers

Xiye Bastida, a 19-year-old Mexican, has joined veteran school avoider Greta Thunberg as a teenager who puts forth their views on climate change with no knowledge to back it up.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 25, 2016, people stand by Australian Memorial of the World War I battle of the Somme in Villers-Bretonneux during the Anzac day in tribute of Australians and New Zealanders soldiers killed in combat. - Popular with British, Belgian, but also Australian and New Zealand visitors, especially for Anzac Day, the museums of the Great War in the French Somme department are fighting back and forth to keep remembrance tourism alive in the face of the health crisis. Every April 25, the dawn ceremony at the Australian memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, gathered in recent years, before the Covid-19 shutdown, some 3,500 people. Among them 70% of Australians, came to commemorate the day in April 1918 when their soldiers stopped the German offensive on Amiens. (Photo by FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP)

Lest we forget why they sacrificed their lives

The acronym ANZAC once symbolised a kinship with New Zealand — until Jacinda Ardern put her economic relationship with Communist China first, writes Piers Akerman.

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**This picture has a scanned reverse - see associated content at the bottom of the details window**Andrew Peacock, member for Kooyong, Victoria and Leader of the federal Liberal Party (1983-1985, 1989-1990), pictured with others (not family) 1980-1984.

Giants being replaced by whining snowflakes

As we remember Prince Philip, Carla Zampatti, Tommy Raudonikis and Andrew Peacock, there is a noteworthy link which ties them — none of them were snowflakes.

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22/08/2011 NEWS: 22/08/2011 NEWS: Staff and columnists from the Sunday Telegraph pictured for new re-branding. Piers Akerman pictured. Pic. Sam Ruttyn NA114370 Pic. Sam Ruttyn NA114370

We need to go back to wisdom of the Middle Ages

On the same day as our national health officials were readjusting their vaccine delivery guidelines, another set of scientists announced a major rethink about the global climate, writes Piers Akerman.

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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull arrives for the state funeral of former NSW premier John Fahey, at St Mary's Cathedral, in Sydney, Friday, September 25, 2020. Mr Fahey was NSW premier from 1992 to 1995 and played a key role in the bid for Sydney to host the 2000 Olympic Games before going on to become federal finance minister. (AAP Image/POOL/Mick Tsikasvia NCA NewsWire)

Turnbull’s new job will cost Gladys dearly

The worst former living Liberal PM Malcolm Turnbull has been appointed a plum job overseeing a touchy-feely climate change panel. He doesn’t deserve it, Piers Akerman writes.

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