Janet Robertson

{{Short description|Argentine-born Falkland Islands politician (2005–2009)}}

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|constituency_AM = Stanley

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|term_start = 17 November 2005

|term_end = 5 November 2009

|predecessor = Jan Cheek

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|birth_place = Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina

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Janet Robertson (born 1965 in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province) is an Argentine-born Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency from 2005 until 2009. Robertson was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council, which was reconstituted into the Legislative Assembly with the implementation of the 2009 Constitution.{{Cite web |title=Janet Robertson bio |url=http://www.falklands.gov.fk/assembly/Ms_Janet_Robertson.html |url-status=dead |publisher=Falkland Islands Government |website=falklands.gov.fk |accessdate=3 July 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323061645/http://www.falklands.gov.fk/assembly/Ms_Janet_Robertson.html |archivedate=23 March 2012}}

Robertson was born in Argentina to Falkland Islander parents in 1965. Her mother, Ana Chiswell (British descent), was born in Buenos Aires and her father was born in the Falklands and had a sheep farm near Río Gallegos. Robertson has a brother, Pablo, born in Río Gallegos and, now, is a pilot of FIGAS.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RvmAgAAQBAJ&q=Janet+Robertson+rio+gallegos&pg=PT169 |title=Kelpers. Ni ingleses ni argentinos: Cómo es la nación que crece frente a nuestras costas |author=Natalia Niebieskikwiat |year=2014 |publisher=Sudamericana |isbn=9789500747011 |accessdate=7 September 2014 |language=es}}

Her family moved to Port Stephens in the Falklands when she was four, but in 1975 she returned to Argentina where she was educated in Cordoba Province with her brother. She went on to study in Wales at Atlantic College, before gaining a degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex.

She was elected to the Legislative Council at the 2005 general election, but lost her seat four years later in the 2009 general election.{{cite news |title=Falklands Election – Stanley Constituency Upset |first=J. |last=Brock |newspaper=South Atlantic Remote Territories Media Association |date=6 November 2009 |url=http://www.sartma.com/art.php?artid=7062&yr=2009&mo=11&os=17 |accessdate=2011-07-03 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065310/http://www.sartma.com/art.php?artid=7062&yr=2009&mo=11&os=17 |url-status=dead }}