Ms. Janet Albrechtsen

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  www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/aubc-m17.shtml - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/17/2005    Last Visited: 6/10/2008  

  The Howard government's appointment of Janet Albrechtsen to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's board of directors on February 24 is another demonstration of Canberra's efforts to transform the network into a mouth-piece for pro-government propaganda.Albrechtsen, a corporate lawyer and columnist for Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper, is infamous for her right-wing views and hostility towards the ABC.
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  After her appointment, Albrechtsen declared that she would use her new position to examine the "problems of bias and how facts are presented".
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  In a subsequent piece, Albrechtsen quoted Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Lebanese Muslim Association in New South Wales, and suggested that he was an apologist for the gang rapists.
  
  As "Media Watch" revealed, Albrechtsen's article was not only plagiarised from a December 2000 comment in the London-based Times, but it falsified statements from a French sociologist and a Danish academic that were used in the Times' story.
  
  The sociologist and academic told "Media Watch" that Albrechtsen had completely distorted the meaning of their comments.Moreover, the quotes from Trad were lifted from an article published a year earlier.They referred, not to gang rapes, but to drug abuse problems amongst Lebanese-Australian youth.
  
  The Murdoch journalist, however, continued to defend her article, reacting to a series of questions from "Media Watch" with a threatening legal letter to the program.
  
  Albrechtsen later claimed she was the victim of a smear campaign by "Media Watch", which, she said, had become a "publicly-funded vehicle for [David] Marr [the show's presenter] to pursue his well-known private vendettas".
  
  After more denunciations of Marr, she lambasted the ABC board for failing to uphold its charter that "news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism" and declared that the network had been "hijacked".
  
  Conflict of interest
  
  Management of the Australian, which failed to reprimand Albrechtsen or even issue an apology to its readers over the journalist's blatant falsifications, has, naturally enough, celebrated her five-year appointment to the ABC board.It declared that she would retain her job at the newspaper and that there would be no "conflict of interest", because she would not write about the national network.
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  Brown advised Albrechtsen to ignore any criticism of her appointment and focus her attention on ABC news coverage.
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  The right-wing fulminations against the ABC by Santoro, Brown, Albrechtsen and the government itself have nothing to do with establishing so-called "balanced news".
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  The appointment of Albrechtsen and other right-wing ideologues to the ABC board is only one component of the government's assault on the state-funded network.

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  Published on: 3/27/2009    Last Visited: 3/27/2009  

  27/03/2009 | THEY make for a strange trio of bedfellows, Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, David Marr, the journalist, and Janet Albrechtsen, the columnist - public figures whose views on politics, society and religion could not be more different.

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  Last Visited: 7/20/2008  

  Conservative appointments followed: Ron Brunton from Queensland, Janet Albrechtsen, a columnist for this newspaper, and Keith Windschuttle, a historian who has made the interesting life journey from socialist to conservative.
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  If Howard has his way Santo Santoro will be on the board of the ABC to join Janet, Windschuttle and all the other raving lunatic right wingers out to demonise muslims, aborigines, the sick, disabled, refugees and unionists.
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  Janet Albrechtsen

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  www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=139 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/13/2009    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  The point is, political hyperbole aside, the furore over the appointment to the board of Janet Albrechtsen could well be spurred by a paucity of precise knowledge about what the board actually does and how it views its role.
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  Albrechtsen isn't, of course, exactly short of opinions, not least about the ABC.A regular Wednesday columnist for The Australian, she has slammed ferociously into the national broadcaster on a wide range of matters.
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  Albrechtsen has claimed the ABC is "staff-captured".She has accused it of having an "anti-[George] Bush agenda".She didn't think The 7.30 Report's coverage of the inquest into Thomas (T.J.) Hickey - whose death triggered a huge disturbance among the Aboriginal community last year in Redfern, Sydney - was fair to police.
  
  Rejected in 2002 as a potential presenter for ABC television's Media Watch, Albrechtsen has frequently lashed at the media-monitoring program.
  
  She has accused it of highlighting the perceived shortcomings of the political Right, of going soft on the Left.She claimed MW's former presenter, David Marr, was "ingrained" with pro-Left bias and implied the program's political complexion explained why she hadn't got the presenter's job.
  
  When Marr accused Albrechtsen of lifting an article from London's The Times - without attribution - then altering it to buttress an argument about Muslims' alleged propensity to pack-rape European women, Albrechtsen was indignant.
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  Interviewed on ABC Radio's Sunday Profile series by a sharp, watchful Monica Attard, Albrechtsen was taken to - arguably - the most important question for her to answer.
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  Albrechtsen: "I think so.Absolutely.
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  Albrechtsen: "Well, I think it's as the charter says.It's to present programs that add to a sense of national identity, and entertain us and reflect the cultural diversity of the Australian community.I think that's absolutely vital and I don't think we can leave that up to commercial stations to do."
  
  Albrechtsen thus put to the sword one of the most serious community criticisms of her appointment: perceptions that she doesn't, fundamentally, believe in public broadcasting.
  
  In the light of Henschke's remarks about individual opinion there's irony in Albrechtsen's appointment in that, effectively, she will replace a former board member whose opinions were sought and highly valued.
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  After Koval had been widely accused of leaking board matters to Media Watch and Newman had resigned, Albrechtsen wrote: "Koval's antics reveal the idea of a staff-appointed director, introduced under Gough Whitlam, is a remnant of the Soviet-style workers' collective ... Reform [of the ABC] cannot come soon enough."
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  Albrechtsen: "Biased organisation is, I think, an incorrect way to sum up my views.
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  Albrechtsen: "Systemic?I don't know.I'd want to have a closer look at that."
  
  Albrechtsen will find at least a proportion of her six colleagues - two board vacancies remain - are already looking.
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  Thus Albrechtsen's may not be quite the fiercely dissenting lone voice that some imagine and fear.

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  www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/04/03/2534072.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 4/5/2009  

  An unlikely team gathered to argue the affirmative - the Reverend Peter Jensen, Lawyer, columnist and ABC Board Member Janet Albrechtsen, and Journalist David Marr.
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  Janet Albrechtsen is a Columnist for The Australian, a lawyer and current ABC Board Member.

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  www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/anti-m30.shtml - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  The report cited the response of Janet Albrechtsen, a leading opinion writer for the Australian.Albrechtsen deliberately falsified comments from a French sociologist to claim that pack rape of white girls was "an initiation rite of passage" for some young male Muslims.

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  www.newmatilda.com/2006/02/08/apologies-sam-kekovich - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 7/18/2008  

  Even his greatest admirers, like The Australian's opinion writer Janet Albrechtsen, are unable to point to one truly innovative achievement, or identify the smallest element of original vision in Howard's years in office.Writing on the 28 December last year ('An excellent year for conservatives and the country'), Albrechtsen gushed that:
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  Albrechtsen and her supporters need to stop by Detroit the next time they're doing the New York-Washington-Boston trip, or venture as far north as Liverpool or Manchester when they're next in the UK, to see how, after years of Clinton and Blair reforms, lives in these working-class cities are just now or were, in the US beginning to recover from those social policies of the 1980s that sought to control people by exploiting envy, and maintaining a state of constant fear.

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  Published on: 4/21/2008    Last Visited: 4/21/2008  

  Janet Albrechtsen, an Australian newspaper columnist, told Al Jazeera that the summit was a symbolic exercise that did not tap adequately into the opinions of those living in Australia's suburbs.

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  www.icjs-online.org/indarch.php?article=1277 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/4/2007    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  This will leave controversial Coalition appointments - such as historian Keith Windschuttle and columnist Janet Albrechtsen - in place through the first term of a Rudd government.

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  Published on: 12/1/2008    Last Visited: 5/24/2009  

  Janet Albrechtsen
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  Janet Albrechtsen writes a weekly column for The Australian. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Council. In 2005, she was appointed a member of the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. .
  
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  Albrechtsen, Janet 2008, Keep power with the people, The Australian [online] 2008, http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustra
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