Janet Albrechtsen

Janet Albrechtsen is an opinion columnist with The Australian. She has worked as a solicitor in commercial law, and attained a Doctorate of Juridical Studies from the University of Sydney. She has written for numerous other publications including the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age, and The Wall Street Journal.

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If Wong doesn’t start the clock, then surely Peter Dutton will if he wins government.

No quarter in MAGA’s war on captured institutions

Few have succeeded in stemming the left’s long march through the institutions. Now Donald Trump wants to be remembered for giving it a red-hot go.

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Journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf outside the Federal Court in Sydney; Sam Kerr in trouble with police in the UK.

Kerr’s trashy outburst should’ve been the end of the story. Sadly, it’s not

Two women. Two court cases. Each much ado about nothing. But there is a bigger tale here about a plodding prime minister who took too long to intervene.

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Professor Margaret Sheil, Vice-chancellor, Queensland University of Technology. Picture: Supplied

University bosses must answer for campus hate speech surge

The biggest cause of anti-Semitism on campus is the consistent lack of intellectual diversity at our biggest universities.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President of Argentina Javier Milei talks with Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Populist revolution may yet save elites from themselves

Progressives have, ironically, regressed so far into extremism that it’s at risk of dying.

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AICD chair Elizabeth Proust, US President Donald Trump, ACSI chief Louise Davidson AM.

Trump’s war on DEI puts the wind up our diversity divas

There is no evidentiary foundation to DEI. From the get-go, it was built on sand. But just watch the advocates in Australia hold on to a flawed policy.

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President Donald Trump gestures to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after being sworn in as president during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

What one activist court can do, another can undo

Labor and Anthony Albanese have zero interest in depoliticising our legal system. The task of untethering politics from the law must be added to Peter Dutton’s to-do list.

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Ordinary Australians can only have cheered when Peter Dutton slammed Bendigo and Adelaide Bank after they refused, on ESG grounds, to lend to a family-owned Tasmanian forestry business with a long history and track record.

Banks get back to core business as woke fades

The Opposition Leader’s point is that if banks refuse to lend on political rather than credit grounds, they are effectively usurping the role of politicians.

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Blowback on DEI as the world finds its voice

Like a rock band that’s gone off the rails, the entire DEI team is being disbanded. Those who value fairness will be celebrating.

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When it comes to politics, moderate is a con. If a company used this word in the same way that, say, many moderate Liberals do, directors would be up on charges of misleading and deceptive conduct.

In politics, the ‘modern moderate’ is a con

If a political moderate advocates an idea, they will claim to be our moral saviour. If a political moderate disagrees with an idea, they will routinely deride the proponent of the idea as a moral reprobate.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 06: Members of the local Jewish community look at the damage of the arson attack at the Adass Israel Synagogue on December 06, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. An arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne forced congregants to flee as flames engulfed the building early on Friday morning. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the incident as an antisemitic act, emphasizing that such violence at a place of worship is unacceptable in Australia. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

The two simple reforms that Labor should have made to protect Jews

We need to clearly distinguish incitement to violence from hate speech. The former must not be tolerated in a free society. The latter must be tolerated if a society is to remain free.

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