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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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A business woman is seen walking through the Melbourne Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Why gender pay numbers don’t add up like for like

The diversity racket embraced by Chief Executive Women translates into applauding every kind of diversity except diversity of thought or opinion.

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Bruce Lehrmann, Brittany Higgins, Linda Reynolds and the senator's office.

Higgins office rape ‘cover-up’ conspiracy debunked

In the Brittany Higgins saga, a sensational lie took hold early on, suggesting morally bankrupt and criminal behaviour at the most senior levels of politics. Now we know what the cleaner found.

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Wesfarmers AGM 2019 held at Perth Convention CentrePictured is Chairman Michael Chaney AOPHOTO: MARIE NIRME

What happens to boardroom activists if voice fails?

If the referendum is successful, we can be sure corporate boards will crow about being on the right side of history … If it fails, what will they do then?

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Holly Protestors. Melbourne Uni academic by the name of Holly Lawford-Smith. She is currently giving a course on Feminism. It's become quite controversial and the trans groups amongst others have taken offence and made complaints etc. The Uni is so concerned about vandalism and other nasty acts that they have hired security for Holly to guard her lecture and to escort her back to office afterwards. Picture: Valeriu Campan

‘You’re not allowed to just talk about women any more’

Academic Holly Lawford-Smith has had a security guard stationed outside her tutorial room. These days, feminism is not so welcome on campus.

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A proponent of affirmative action holds a sign during a protest at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 1, 2023. The US Supreme Court on June 27 banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

True equality under law has no place for race

Disadvantage should always trouble us, and we must seek ways to overcome it, but that is not done by dividing people by race formally and permanently in the Constitution.

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31-05-2022: Thomas Mayo poses for a portrait in Hobart, Tasmania. Thomas is an Uluru Statement signatory, a key voice campaigner and indigenous author. Picture: Chris Crerar

Worried about the voice? Wait until you see the treaty

A Yes vote in the referendum is not the end of the process but rather the starting gun to a long and divisive treaty negotiation.

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 13: Protesters attend a massive demonstration infront of the Israeli parliament as opposition leadears call for a nationwide strike and protests all over the country against the Israeli government on February 13, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel's Knesset may begin the legislation process of the judicial overhaul, that will increase the government's sway in selecting judges while weakening Supreme Court power to strike down laws. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

There’s no place for judicial activism in democracy

When a group of Australian judges is so exercised by reasonable attempts to curb Israel’s activist court, it is a sign of the activist preferences of some of our own judges.

Janet Albrechtsen

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TOPSHOT - Demonstrators lift banners and flags during a rally in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan, on June 24, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Jewish body slams ‘politicised’ judges

The representative body for judges and magistrates released a statement expressing concern at changes being considered in Israel.

Noah Yim and Janet Albrechtsen

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Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz. Picture Instagram

Brittany Higgins’ book: ‘Here I am in the mud with the pigs’

Brittany Higgins’ book appears to have been shelved. One look at the rough draft and it’s not hard to understand why.

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21/6/23: Sophie Vivian, a woman who was sexually abused as a child. The man who abused her has just been convicted in Canberra, but was not prosecuted with the same vigor as other more prominent cases, such as the Brittany Higgins case. John Feder/The Australian.

‘My abuser got an easy run amid Higgins circus’

While Brittany Higgins’ case got the Rolls-Royce ride, Sophie Vivian says her treatment at the hands of DPP Shane Drumgold could not have been more different.

Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice

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