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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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Albanese cosying up to lunatic lefties could end in teals

With the failure of the Labor experiment, Australians must vote for change – and that means not muddling in the middle with a wasted teal vote, writes Piers Akerman.

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Schools are for teaching – not propaganda

Australian kids need protection from anti-Semitic propaganda at school, where civics and history should be compulsory along with reading, writing and arithmetic, writes Piers Akerman.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 21, 2025. Federal Minister Tony Burke at the citizenship ceremony at Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Why Australians don’t want your hate

The social compact Bob Hawke praised as making us an exceptional nation is at odds with the actions of the Albanese government, writes Piers Akerman.

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NSW government officials are investigating after nurses at Bankstown Hospital, Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, wearing their NSW Health uniforms were filmed declaring they refuse to treat Israeli people and would

Labor policies stir up anti-Jew hatred

Far from being an exception, the loathsome video featuring two NSW Health nurses gleefully expressing their desire to murder Jews is the horrifying norm, writes Piers Akerman.

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Federal Leader of the LNP Peter Dutton social media post about Nuclear Power - This is the concept design of a zero emissions small modular reactor. Nuclear energy has proven to get electricity prices and emissions down all over the world. Out of the world’s 20 largest economies, Australia is the only one not using nuclear energy or moving towards it. Zero emissions nuclear energy is part of the answer to our energy challenges.It works with renewables and would allow Australia to get to net-zero. It will keep the lights on 24/7 and keep electricity costs down.Right now, Australia’s energy comes from 63 per cent fossil fuels and 37 per cent renewables. As we transition away from fossil fuels, Labor’s renewables-only approach means Australia risks a massive energy black hole and extraordinary costs. Labor is stuck in the past, and like most of their policies, it is not forward-thinking, and you are suffering because of it. The Coalition will not make the same mistake. I announced today that a future Federal Coalition government will introduce zero-emissions nuclear energy in Australia to work in partnership with renewable energy and gas as part of a balanced energy mix. Our plan will deliver net-zero electricity by 2050, lower power bills and a strong and resilient economy.

Labor’s green poison is killing businesses across the nation

The climate change zealots are pulling green wool over voters’ eyes while ignoring the physics of energy, writes Piers Akerman.

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Anti-Semitism attacks and pro-Palestine prrotest

How insipid Labor leadership has emboldened anti-Semitic terrorists

If the Federal and NSW governments had not given such a miserably weak response to the anti-Semitic scourge sweeping the nation, things may have not spiralled to this crisis point, writes Piers Akerman.

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US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he just signed to strenghten American leadership in digital financial technology, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Australia must ride Donald Trump’s bureaucracy-busting tsunami

Donald Trump slashing red tape across all US government departments will save Americans billions but our Green-Left government is still pouring kerosene on the inflationary fire it lit, writes Piers Akerman.

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Trump making his mark but Albo on wrong side of history

While Donald Trump is making history, the Albanese government should be consigned to it so Australians can proudly lift their heads in the wider world, writes Piers Akerman.

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Swastikas, Dreyfus and Palestinian envoy

Wasteful gestures do nothing to curb hate speech

Dreyfus’ mission is a slap in the face to Israel while Canberra splurges on what is little more than an Islamist apology group, writes Piers Akerman.

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Tell failed PM he’s dreaming

Anthony Albanese reckons he’s been underestimated his whole political life. Tell him he’s dreaming, writes Piers Akerman.

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