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Piers Akerman (born June 1950) is a conservative columnist for the Australian News Limited newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Brief biography

Born in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Piers Akerman was raised in Perth by his parents, John, an Australian Government doctor, and Eve Akerman (d. 2003), a newspaper columnist and reviewer in Western Australia. He is the third son in a family of four children.
   In the US, while covering the 1974 America's Cup at Newport, Rhode Island, Akerman met his wife, Suzanne, a solicitor. They were married in Connecticut several years later and have two children, Tess and Pia.
   Akerman's columns were noted for raising the ire of the former leader of the Australian Labor Party and the Federal Opposition, Mark Latham, among others. Latham was known to weave complaints about Akerman's writing into his speeches and, in 2002, while protected by parliamentary privilege, publicly accused Akerman of being addicted to cocaine well into the 1980s (see below).
   Akerman is a regular panellist on ABC Television's political commentary program Insiders.

Controversies

Akerman has had charges of sexual harassment levelled against him by employees. Five former employees, three of whom agreed to be named, said they witnessed Mr Akerman sexually harass female members of his staff. and in a Sunday Age article about him in 1991, Akerman, who is clearly overweight, replied: "My appearance belies that story, don't you think?"

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