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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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Portrait of Teddy Sheean. It's been 80 years since the HMAS Armidale ship was sunk off the Timor coast in WWII, 1942., The secret mission was classified for 50 years, and now, Australian Award-winning Film Director Craig Monahan has created a nine part narrated podcast series titled The Armidale to commemorate the fatal disaster, many men who perished were 18-21. Picture: Supplied

Canberra too happy to forget brave men who died for this country

Lest We Forget must be a Canberra joke as many heroes and heroines unrecognised by governments and their useless but ever-growing bureaucracies, writes Piers Akerman.

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FOREIGN MINISTER PENNY WONG - SPEECH TO THE ANU NATIONAL SECURITY COLLEGE - CANBERRA - TUESDAY, 9 APRIL 2024 Picture - Rohan Thomson/ANU

Wong’s speech intent on dividing Australians

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s comments this week on Palestine and a two-state solution plays directly into the hands of Hamas and has made Australia a laughing stock, writes Piers Akerman.

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People mourn by the coffins of five members of the Kutz family, Aviv, 54, Livnat, 49, Rotem, 19, Yonatan, 17, and Yiftach, 15, who were killed in a Palestinian militant attack on their kibbutz of Kfar Aza, during their funeral in Gan Yavne town in central Israel, on October 17, 2023. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. (Photo by Oren ZIV / AFP)

Albanese is turning spotlight away from Hamas’s atrocities

The death of an aid worker in Gaza is a most unfortunate incident but Anthony Albanese has used it in an attempt to undermine international support for Israel’s attempt to eradicate a Hamas and protect its citizens, writes Piers Akerman.

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Easter Sunday St Mary's Cathedral. Picture: Chris Kidd

Religious tolerance at risk in war on freedom of choice

Australia, a nation of immigrants, has been a beacon for religious tolerance. This Easter, let us pray it continues to be so, writes Piers Akerman.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 20, 2024: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong meet with China's Foreign Minister and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, HE Mr Wang Yi at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

How China is making the most of Australia’s ‘useful idiots’

The Albanese government has in its first term adopted a series of grossly damaging policies which increase our dependence on the Chinese Communist Party, writes Piers Akerman.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 15 2024: Foreign Minister Penny Wong is in Adelaide, talking about unpausing funds to aid victims in Gaza.Picture: NCA NewsWire / RoyVphotography

Wong may as well have handed UNRWA money to Hamas

With defenders of the offenders claiming Ukraine incited Russia and Israel provoked Hamas, the West is wimping out on winning the wars, writes Piers Akerman.

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FILES-- This file photo taken on August 16, 2023 shows Australia's forward Sam Kerr celebrating scoring her team's first goal during the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup semi-final football match between Australia and England at Stadium Australia in Sydney. Chelsea and Australian women's football star Sam Kerr has been charged with a

Why we should stop taking tipsy millennials seriously

Let’s stop taking drunken millennials, sports stars or not, seriously. Let them grow old disgracefully and, hopefully, harmlessly, writes Piers Akerman.

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NSW Police Commissioner Karen webb at the 2023 Sydney MArdi Gras Parade, 25 February 2023. Supplied

Why police should not have caved in to gay activists

NSW police being forced into humiliating negotiations over marching in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras demonstrated the perils of mixing woke politics with public service, writes Piers Akerman.

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HMAS Stalwart conducts a dual replenishment at sea as their shipâs embarked MH-60R helicopter âBoomerangâ conducts a Vertical Replenishment with HMA Ships Brisbane and Toowoomba during a transit as part of a regional presence deployment. *** Local Caption *** The Royal Australian Navy is undertaking a regional presence deployment in Southeast and Northeast Asia. During the deployment, HMA Ships Toowoomba, Stalwart and Brisbane demonstrated the Royal Australian Navyâs ability to execute sustained operations in the deployed environments through superior Replenishment at Sea capability. During this evolution, Stalwart completing her first dual Replenishment at Sea evolution providing HMA Ships Toowoomba and Brisbane with F76 fuel, and F44 fuel for the embarked MH-60R Helicopters. Concurrently, Stalwart launched her embarked MH-60R Helicopter, Boomerang, to conduct a Vertical Replenishment of stores and mission-essential equipment to Toowoomba. Regional presence deployments demonstrate Australiaâs commitment to, and engagement with, the region. The deployments play a vital role in Australiaâs long-term security and prosperity by protecting Australiaâs interests, preserving a rules-based order, enhancing cooperation and relationships with regional partners and allies, and developing capability and interoperability.

Latest naval brain snap still leaving us defenceless

Another costly naval pipedream will lull the electorate into a false sense of security without providing the protection we desperately need, writes Piers Akerman.

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Images from Defence Department website**Members of the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) prepare for a patrol in southern Afghanistan. Date taken: 27 August 2007 . ( to go with story regarding ADF weapon serviceability. **** BUT NOTE the special forces decided they did not want to use the steyr rifle preferring the more versatile US designed M-4 weapons system )

We need people ready to kill for our nation

Australia’s defences are all but non-existent, and the Albanese government’s leftist thinking is to blame, writes Piers Akerman.

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