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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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Natalie Charlesworth newly appointed Federal court justice in the Federal court building.

How judge blew up green activists’ pipeline

Taxpayers should not be bankrolling organisations that rely on environmental activists in the bureaucracy and judiciary to accept faked evidence to underpin its claims, writes Piers Akerman.

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Srisamon Overs proudly wears her flag glasses. Australia Day celebrations at Picnic Point in Toowoomba.Thursday, January 26, 2023. Picture: Nev Madsen.

Why we have a full basket of things to celebrate on January 26

Forget Invasion Day, Salvation Day or Enlightenment Day would be more accurate descriptions of the arrival of Western culture to Australia, writes Piers Akerman.

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Anthony Albanese delivered his annual Christmas message to Australians. Picture: Supplied

Albanese more interested in woke agenda than Aussies

Anthony Albanese has the nation in a woke headlock, damaging Australia’s economic and social welfare, writes Piers Akerman.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a visit to the St Kilda Shule in Melbourne on October 11, 2023. The death toll from five days of ferocious fighting between Hamas and Israel rose sharply overnight as Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza on October 11 after recovering the dead from the last communities near the border where Palestinian militants had been holed up. (Photo by JAMES ROSS / POOL / AFP)

Albanese’s end-of-year report card full of failures and few principles

Anthony Albanese is no more than a deluded student politician – good on backroom deals with factional party bosses, but out of his depth on the national and international stage, writes Piers Akerman.

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US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and pledged to steer their countries away from conflict on November 15, 2023, as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Biden nails the truth as other world leaders stumble over Hamas horrors

It’s nice to know Joe Biden can occasionally articulate something that is absolutely accurate as our own leaders offer up worthless, ambiguous statements to atrocities that need to be condemned, writes Piers Akerman.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 08: Pro-Palestine activists gather in protest at the entrance of Port Melbourne on November 08, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched the largest surprise attack from Gaza in a generation, sending thousands of missiles and an unknown number of fighters by land, who shot and kidnapped Israelis in communities near the Gaza border. The attack prompted retaliatory strikes on Gaza, a declaration of war by the Israeli prime minister, and an ongoing operation in Gaza that has killed and injured thousands. (Photo by Diego Fedele/Getty Images)

Using the law to make war on our peaceful way of life

Police in NSW and Victoria have let vile anti-Semites run their own agenda, writes Piers Akerman.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -NCA NewsWire Photos - Sunday 29 October, 2023:General and breaking news coverage from a major pro-Palestinian protest and march, commencing at Sydney Town Hall and marching to Belmore Park from 2pm. More pro-Palestinian rallies have been planned across Sydney and Melbourne as tensions boil over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Witless woke Westerners applaud murderous antics of Hamas

Lunatic Greens, universities and trade unions are among the Australians being led by this murderous, nihilist cult called Hamas which is hellbent on destroying Israel and its inhabitants, writes Piers Akerman.

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