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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 - OCTOBER 27: Portrait of Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, on October 27, 2017 in Canberra, Australia. Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister of Australia from December 2007 to June 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013. He has just released the first of a two-volume autobiography: 'Not for the Faint-Hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007'. (Photo by Michael Masters/Getty Images)

Oh yes, Kevin’s still the great pretender

LABOR’S most damaging prime minister Kevin Rudd still clings to the delusion that ousting John Howard’s government and defeating him in the seat of Bennelong was his greatest triumph, Piers Akerman writes.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a visit to the Vitex Pharmaceuticals factory in Eastern Creek in Sydney, Friday, November 17, 2017. (AAP Image/David Moir) NO ARCHIVING

Survey result clouds more pressing issues

NOW that Malcolm Turnbull has celebrated the homosexual marriage survey results, he should address some more pressing issues, Piers Akerman writes, like the national government debt for instance.

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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attends the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JORGE SILVA

Betrayed by a mob of pathetic pollies

THE Australian political class is now as lost as Burke and Wills and Ludwig Leichhardt. The current leaders of all parties represented in Canberra are absolutely woeful.

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Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement Patrice Cullors (right) and Canadian chapter leader Rodney Diverlus pose for a photograph in Sydney, Thursday, November 2, 2017. The Black Lives Matters representatives are in Australia to visit indigenous Australians and to receive the Sydney Peace Prize. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Leftie luvvies trash our good name again

SYDNEY University’s in-house Lefties have again trashed Sydney’s good name and reputation by awarding a trumped-up “peace prize” to a radical Left-wing group, Piers Akerman writes.

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New Zealand's Labour party leader Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media after her first caucus meeting as Prime Minister-elect at Parliament in Wellington on October 20, 2017. New Zealand's prime minister-elect Jacinda Ardern promised

Nobody’s laughing at this fart joke

FIRST Canada, then France, and now New Zealand has elected an inexperienced populist with no time for proper public scrutiny, writes Piers Akerman.

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A photo taken on September 28 and obtained on September 29, 2016, shows transmission towers carrying power lines, toppled by high winds near Melrose in South Australia. Australia on Thursday after

‘Invest in coal-powered electricity generation’

THE ineptitude of Malcolm Turnbull’s government has been epitomised by its latest energy policy thought bubble — the offer to pay consumers NOT to use electricity this summer, Piers Akerman writes.

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A rainbow flag and a pen to sign the marriage certificate are pictured prior to the wedding ceremony of Bode Mende and Karl Kreile as they became Germany's first gay couple to be legally married tying the knot at the Schoeneberg town hall in Berlin on October 1, 2017. Germany celebrates its first gay marriages as same-sex unions become legal after decades of struggle. Local authorities rushed to get weddings underway as soon as possible, after lawmakers voted on June 30th to give Germany's roughly 94,000 same-sex couples the right to marry. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN

Stop being Yes men and consider fallout

ARROGANCE, closed-mindedness and intolerance have marked the whingeing and bitter campaign waged by supporters of the Yes lobby in the homosexual marriage debate, Piers Akerman writes.

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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 NA039001 Pic. Sam Ruttyn NA039001

ABC spreading fake news

FACEBOOK co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted that he was wrong to deny the role played by Facebook in spreading “fake news”. When will the ABC ’fess up to the same offence?

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Hatred has given love a massive headbutt

THE Yes-No debate on changing the meaning of the word marriage to include currently legal homosexual unions was always going to be about headbutting but civility was meant to have kept it metaphorical.

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Just say no to beat bullies

The national opinion poll on homosexual marriage is set to undermine our society. Why would any sensible person give a blank cheque to a rabble of rabid social activists bent on smashing the bedrock of our culture?

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