Janet Albrechtsen, PhD (born 1966) is an Australian opinion columnist, social commentator and conservative pundit with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia's state-owned national broadcaster. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... News Limited was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch until the formation of News Corporation in 1979. ... The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...

Albrechtsen was born in Adelaide and graduated in law from Adelaide University, then moved to Sydney and worked as a commercial lawyer. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Sydney Law School and has taught as an academic. Since turning to commentary, she has worked for the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age and Quadrant. For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... University of Adelaide Sub Cruce Lumen The light under the Cross The University of Adelaide, located in the center of Adelaide, South Australia, was founded in 1874, making it the third oldest university in Australia. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Commercial law (sometimes known as business law) is the body of law which governs business and commerce. ... The University of Sydney, established in Sydney in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... The Australian Financial Review is the leading business newspaper in Australia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal founded in 1956 by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe, James McAuley, a Catholic poet. ...

Albrechtsen frequently comments on legal issues. She has criticised both the High Court of Australia and the Family Court of Australia for judicial activism. High Court entrance The High Court of Australia is the final court of appeal in Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. ... It has been suggested that Australian family law be merged into this article or section. ... Judicial activism is a term used by political commentators to describe a tendency by judges to consider outcomes, attitudinal preferences, and other public policy issues in interpreting applicable existing law. ...

Albrechtsen has attracted vigorous criticism of her own. In 2002 the ABC's Media Watch program accused her of misquoting a French psychiatrist, Jean-Jacques Rassial, by changing "gang rape had become an initiation rite for male adolescents", to "Pack rape of white girls is an initiation rite of passage for a small section of young male Muslim youths".^[1][2] Albrechtsen strongly denied misquoting anyone and accused Media Watch of "misleading conduct of the kind you purport to expose", left-wing bias and ambush journalism.^[3] The name Media Watch is used by several different organisations and at least one TV series. ... A misquotation is an accidental or intentional misrepresentation of a persons speech or writing, involving one or more of: Omission of important context: The context can be important for determining the overall argument the quoted person wanted to make, for seeing whether the quoted statement was restricted or even... The name Media Watch is used by several different organisations and at least one TV series. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In February 2005 Albrechtsen was appointed by the Minister for Communications, Senator Helen Coonan to the board of the ABC. The appointment was criticised by several left-wing commentators, including former Media Watch host David Marr.^[4] February 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Pope John Paul II is taken to a hospital suffering from a serious case of influenza. ... Helen Lloyd Coonan (born 29 October 1947), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing New South Wales. ... David Marr (born in Sydney 1947) is an Australian journalist and author. ...

Albrechtsen had been a regular and vocal critic of the ABC prior to her appointment to its Board. Once appointed she undertook not to make further comments on the ABC in her newspaper columns ^{[citation needed]}.

References

1. ^ Media Watch (9 September 2002). "Janet Albrechtsen's View". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
2. ^ Media Watch, Muslims, Albrechtsen and Others (2002). Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
3. ^ Email from Janet Albrechtsen to Peter McEvoy (6 September 2002). Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
4. ^ Caldwell, Alison (24 February 2005). ABC critic appointed to board of directors. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.

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External links

• Albrechtsen's biography at The Australian's website
• Archive of Albrechtsen's columns with reader comments, from February 2007 onwards