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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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Joshua Brown leads the smoking ceremony at the official opening of new mental health facility in Pechey Street, Toowoomba Clinic which will take first clients in mid September.

Workplace ‘re-education camps’ speak to culture of weakness

Re-education camps are all the rage. The ABC is re-educating its staff about racism. It’s not clear from its recent racism review what it means by racism.

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Labor weaponised #MeToo, now brace for more fallout

One way or another, the Albanese government’s mishandling of Brittany Higgins’s claim against the commonwealth was always going to come back to haunt it.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 30: Jakirah Telfer performs a welcome to country on August 30, 2023 in Adelaide, Australia. On October 14, 2023, Australians will vote on a referendum to amend the Constitution to recognise First Peoples of Australia and establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. To pass, the referendum requires a 'double majority'ÃÂ³ a national majority of 'yes' votes, and a majority of states voting 'yes'. (Photo by James Elsby/Getty Images)

‘Reconciliation’ agenda might make us feel good — but it does nothing to close the gap

There are two Indigenous projects on foot in Australia: ‘reconciliation’ and ‘closing the gap’. The former demands special rights for Indigenous people. The second demands equal opportunities for every Australian.

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VARIOUS CITIES, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 26: Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe takes part in the Invasion Day rally on January 26, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Australia Day, formerly known as Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia and is celebrated annually on January 26 to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. Many indigenous Australians refer to the day as 'Invasion Day' and there is a growing movement to change the date to one which can be celebrated by all Australians. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Time to get rid of Indigenous reconciliation police

The separatist spirit of the voice to parliament lives on in thousands of the nation’s corporate action plans.

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Allegra Spender, Kylea Tink, Zoe Daniel, Simon Holmes a Court.

Teals can’t resist playing the gender card

It’s time we replace this ‘teal’ word. At the risk of ruining my next G&T, I’m renaming them the limes because they vote in lock-step with the Greens.

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A still from video shows an unidentified Israeli family held hostage by Hamas militants. The video was shared on 09-10-2023 by the Israel Foreign Ministry in a blurred form - https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1711016332089606406This unblurred version was retrieved on 08-10-2023.

The real-life horror movie our politicians refuse to see

Raw footage, running for about 45 minutes, captures the unspeakable horror of October 7: innocent people being murdered, beheaded, hunted down, raped, kicked, bashed, burnt alive. Here’s what Australia’s leaders had to say when I asked if they had seen it.

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Australia's Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney marches in a

In final analysis of the voice, Australians voted for unity

The overwhelming No vote was recorded despite the tidal wave of support from high-profile political, media, business, religious, education and arts elites.

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The pretend morality of our supermarket giants

If galling corporate virtue signalling doesn’t wake us up, the hypocrisy of some of biggest Australian companies sure will.

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If the BCA and its members continue to embrace left-wing populist causes, consistently proving themselves to be out of touch with millions of Australians, they should expect an equal and opposite reaction from the community. Clockwise from top: Danny Gilbert, Alison Kitchen, BCA chief executive Bran Black, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and BCA president Geoff Culbert.

The four ways the BCA is failing Australia

The Business Council of Australia is correct to say that populist business bashing must stop. But in large part the BCA and its members have only themselves to blame for their low standing.

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Janet Albrechten - On her walk in British Columbia, Canada.

My own cautionary tale about society’s overregulation

I got lost in the forests of mountainous British Columbia. Those who jump to conclusions will put it down to me ignoring a sign that said ‘Summer Boundary Ends Here’. But there’s a twist.

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