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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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SEX, LOVE & GOOP. GWYNETH PALTROW in SEX, LOVE & GOOP. Cr. Courtesy of NETFLIX/Netflix Â© 2021

My feminist idols have the courage to be real

Forget Little Miss Perfects and their Goopy lives – my feminist idols have the courage to be real.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 23: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese holds a press conference with the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, the Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, Senator Patrick Dodson, and members of the Referendum Working Group hold a press conference at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice activists, not lawyers, behind dishonest debate

A referendum result procured by fraud and misrepresentation will damage reconciliation, perhaps beyond repair.

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Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird soars beyond culture vultures

In his stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, would Aaron Sorkin take a red pen to the tale to reflect modern-day pieties? How would the social forces of #MeToo appear? I need not have worried.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 01: Former Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Paul Keating attend the Labor Party election campaign launch at Optus Stadium on May 01, 2022 in Perth, Australia. The Australian election will be held on May 21, 2022. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Dear Mr Keating: A letter to a boorish, old ex-PM

Former PMs could learn a thing or two from Julia Gillard. Certainly, she was not our greatest prime minister. But she sure is a very fine former prime minister.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA , NewsWire Photos. MARCH 16TH 2023 Bruce Lehrmann walks out of the supreme court in Sydney . Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Flavio Brancaleone

Balancing interests of complainants and defendants

In these days of #MeToo too many people are overcorrecting in the struggle to find the right balance between protecting the rights of victims of alleged sexual assault and the rights of defendants.

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## EXCLUSIVE and for use in The Australian ONLY ## 17/3/23: Bruce Lehrmann in Sydney today John Feder/The Australian.

Lehrmann shocked at judge’s secret guilty-plea comment

In his first interview, Bruce Lehrmann has revealed the judge who presided over his trial for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins made a comment to his barrister, which showed a possible ‘apprehension of bias’ against him.

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15/7/20: Bret Walker QC leaves the Ruby Princes Inquiry in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Denigration and slurs: maybe we need to restart debate

It is beyond poor form for Bret Walker to accuse those who disagree with his legal analysis of the constitutional implications of the voice of making racist arguments.

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Bret Walker, the lawyer for cardinal George Pell leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Pell appeal is appealing his conviction for sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s listed for the Court of Appeal. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Legal eagles at war over voice

A top barrister has issued a stinging rebuke to Bret Walker after the senior silk branded arguments against the proposed Indigenous voice model as racist.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 16, 2022: Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney addresses media ahead of the Joint Council on Closing the Gap meeting.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Court in the act: what else is voice lobby not telling us?

The gamble by Yes activists that we would not look too hard at the proposed wording and its consequences, or stand up to bullying, has manifestly failed.

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A statement given by Brittany Higgins outside of a Canberra courtroom has been referred to the Australian Federal Police and the ACT Supreme Court by Bruce Lehrmann.

Public hearing for Lehrmann trial probe

The inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins will hold its first public hearing on April 26.

Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice

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