WfaAR’s Sarah Brasch explains how long it took to get the six Australian States and the Commonwealth on the same page to give effect to changes that the British wanted to make to their succession laws. She finds a complex…
“Constitutional conservatives”, who appear to be all white males opposing any change to the Constitution, now propose that there should be a “declaration” recognising the place of our First Peoples in the nation’s history and culture. This would be decided…
On Margaret Throsby’s Midday Interview (ABC Classic FM Mon-Fri at 12 noon), the guest was former Labor PM Bob Hawke. Margaret started by asking him about the Abbott knighthoods introduced last year. Hawke replied that the measure of their worth was that…
Prince Harry arrives for another pointless visit, his second in 18 months and the seventh royal visit since 2011 noting the drought from 1999 to 2011 interrupted only the short 2006 visit by the Queen to open the Commonwealth Games in…
And so the Act of Recognition, and with it the promise of the referendum on Indigenous Recognition, expires at the end of its two year time limit. There is now no firm date set for this referendum – seriously the first step to the Republic…
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announces that Barbados will remove the Queen and create a ceremonial President for his small Caribbean country colonised by the British in 1627. Barbados became independent in 1966 and has also in the last few years…
To add to the amazing qualities of his mother that were revealed during the Diamond Jubilee, we now discover from his latest biographer that Prince Charles is a sexy, mesmerising dancer and doesn’t need to use the bathroom because “he…
The Commonwealth bill was finally passed by the national Parliament on 19 March and assented into law on 24 March after more than three years in the making. With finesse in coordination, the Governor-General proclaimed the law to commence at…
Speeches in both the House of Representatives (17 March) and the Senate (19 March) were made by a number of female MPs including in the Senate: Senator Jacinta Collins (Lab NSW) and Senator Christine Milne (Greens Tas) and in the House of Representatives:…
After the determined efforts of the Newman Liberal National Government in Queensland to reinforce the monarchy at every turn, there is hope that things will change – and change back – under the new Labor Government elected in January. Find out what the…
