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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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PM pulls the hood over his own head

PM pulls the hood over his own head

THE Turnbull government’s knee-jerk reaction to the thoroughly misleading ABC special on the treatment of ­inmates at the NT’s Don Dale Youth ­Detention Centre marks yet another failed ­response to the real issue hiding in plain sight.

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Satire is starting to make good sense

Satire is starting to make good sense

ON the morning of the Nice massacre, I walked past Cafe Procope, the oldest restaurant in Paris and a favourite of the great scholar Voltaire, who is wrongly credited with the quote: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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