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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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Affirmative action gone mad

HERE in the land of the free and the brave, some liberals are looking more like cowards not much interested in real freedom.

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Don’t give unelected judges more power

HERE’S a message literally out of left field. Young Labor, a group brimming with idealistic, progressive young men and women, has given the thumbs down to a charter of rights.

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Put the brakes on judicial hoons

J’ACCUSE. I accuse some judges of naked, unvarnished judicial activism. I accuse them of distorting and destroying the democratic framework in Australia.

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Without US there’d be hell to pay

Growing anti-American sentiment and domestic disillusion may turn the US inward

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No time to lose our nerve

We had better get used to the detention of people with alleged links to terrorism. Albrechtsen blog

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Janet Albrechtsen: Rein in attack, we need new rules

THERE is no rule book on being the wife of a prime minister. And even if there were, new chapters might need to be added should Therese Rein find herself in the role.

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