Career
Akerman began his media career at Western Australia's only daily, The West Australian. He then moved on to the short-lived Victorian newspaper Newsday and took his first News Limited job at the Daily Mirror in Sydney. He was briefly at The Australian as Foreign Editor in 1983.
He worked for a time at British national newspaper, The Times, and spent ten years as a foreign correspondent in the United States. On returning to Australia, he was editor of The Advertiser, Adelaide (1988) and The Sunday Herald Sun, Melbourne (1990). During 1990-92 he was editor-in-chief of the Herald & Weekly Times group in Melbourne before becoming a vice-president of Fox News, USA in 1993.
Akerman's columns were noted for raising the ire of Mark Latham, former leader of the Australian Labor Party and the Federal Opposition, among others. Latham was known to weave complaints about Akerman's writing into his speeches.
Akerman is a regular panelist on ABC Television's political commentary program Insiders. He has also appeared on the ABC's political program Q&A, most recently barking catch-cries with Christopher Pyne over the top of government Minister Kate Ellis's answer to an audience question.
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