29 October

Senator Amanda Vanstone claims that Sir Robert Menzies would have been a republican if he had been born in the 1940s. Commenting on the campaign, she said that people had switched off to the republic debate because of their dislike of the “typically Australian, two-party, knock-them-down politics” that had dominated so far. Others politicians are also concerned, or even depressed, about lack of interest by voters. The NO case polling is showing that YES voters are concentrated in the high income groups (from The Australian which pictured ACTU official, Jenny Doran, campaigning for the republic on a construction site in Melbourne).