Government confirms 6 November as the date for referendum (this will require the referendum legislation to pass through both Houses of Federal Parliament by 20 August). Also announced was the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee to consider the…
The Prime Minister received 666 submissions on the Preamble – 250 were from women and women’s groups, mostly from individuals. The Government received 111 submissions about the Referendum Bills, just under 20 percent from women.
Pamela Ryan, an Australian academic, is heading a non-profit group to organise the countrys first deliberative poll in October. 300 people will meet in Canberra to reach an informed view on the Republic and a President appointed by Parliament after…
Prime Minister threatens to drop the preamble from the November referendum if Opposition members vote to replace his version with their own in the Senate and says that he sees nothing wrong with the term “mateship”;
Labor, Greens and Democrat MPs in the federal parliament endorse an alternative version of the preamble containing a general statement of equality but not specifically referring to the equality of men and women. It was jointly released by Senator Natasha…
Queen Elizabeth II ends a trip to South Korea hailed as a milestone in ties between London and Seoul. This was described in the international press as the first visit “by a British head of State”….;
Women’s Electoral Lobby calls on the Prime Minister to modify his preamble to include a specific reference to the equality of men and women. “I think a lot of women were quite shocked to have that very important principle wrapped…
Only one woman, Professor Cheryl Saunders of Melbourne, appointed by Government to its Referendum Advisory Committee.
“PM ‘welshed’ on women”. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Professor Marian Sawer’s remarks at the Women Into Politics symposium in Lismore that the Prime Minister reneged on his public commitment to include a statement of the equality of men…
Jeff Kennett, Premier of Victoria, publishes his own version of the preamble called a “Declaration of the People of Australia”: no clear statement of the equality of women and men and and lacking acknowledgment of our Indigenous peoples
