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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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(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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Yassmin Abdel-Magied a show about Australia's hijab fashion scene. The show, to be aired on ABC iView on May 1, had its trailer released yesterday showing Abdel-Magied in a variety of Islamic headwear. Twitter

A win for sense over an Orwellian council

AFTER more than a year, the Australian Press Council ­begrudgingly found The Sunday Telegraph did not breach its standards in publishing an art­icle I wrote about the serially objectionable Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Piers Akerman writes.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks at the New South Wales Liberal Party State Council Meeting at the Hilton in Sydney, Saturday, May 26, 2018. (AAP Image/Jeremy Ng) NO ARCHIVING

Labor makes PM look like he’s in the right

MALCOLM Turnbull finally appears to have turned a Right-hand corner as Bill Shorten takes a disastrous Left-turn. Tomorrow’s Newspoll should indicate whether the public is paying attention, Piers Akerman writes.

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