Ex-astronaut Julie Payette is appointed as Canada’s next Governor-General, the fourth woman to represent the Queen of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the recommendation to the Queen, who approved it, bypassing the selection panel put in place by his conservative predecessor,…
ARM adopts its first national policy and strategy to attract more women to support the Republic. This long overdue development – an issue that WfaAR has long urged ARM to address directly – was the result of lengthy deliberations within ARM. Women’s support…
Monash University academic and Whitlam biographer, Professor Jenny Hocking is pursuing the release of letters from the Palace written at the time of The Dismissal. She says, “Pressure is building on the Prime Minister to intervene in the long-running dispute over…
QB long weekend found WfaAR working at its usual routine while most people were taking a holiday. This led to musings about the small number of (very small) businesses – mostly – that don’t observe our Head of State’s birthday with a day…
For her birthday, Sydney University’s Oliver Watt muses on the genius of our Head of State’s development of the contemporary crown with stylish, tall hats. He writes, “The hat is an example par excellence of aristocratic excess, the equivalent of a peacock’s…
Results of vote (see News for 22 May): 97.18 percent of votes cast in favour of US statehood on a very low turnout of 22.99 percent. The non-binding referendum was the fifth vote in Puerto Rico’s history since 1493 on becoming part of the…
The close result in the UK election reminds us that Britain could also have come close to having a republic supporting Prime Minister in Jeremy Corbyn. Not our Republic, their republic! This notion got a few people excited, notably Peter Fitzsimons, Chair of ARM who thought that a President of Great…
Prince Harry launches the 2018 Invictus Games at Admiralty House in Sydney. An event that is being run by a not-for-profit charity into which the Australian and NSW Governments are tipping at least $7m, and probably much more, seems to have no problem…
A stroll through the rarely open Federation Gallery at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra reminds WfaAR how long it took to negotiate and draft the first Australian federal Constitution. Starting in 1890, it was considered by several constitutional conventions, the…
WfaAR National Convenor writes to The Canberra Times in response to a letter from Australian Monarchist League denying the link between the republic and reconciliation, a striking juxtaposition given the timing of the release of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We make…
