They are coming thick and fast in the UK. With Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, already having placed her demand for a referendum in front of Theresa May, Sinn Fein leader, Michelle O’Neill has been plain about the desire of…
A second visit to the Artist and Empire exhibition at the National Gallery of Singapore brings closer attention to the explanatory wall charts. One lists the 20th century history of the six main country groupings highlighted in the show, Australia…
WfaAR has been visiting the Republic of Singapore, full of vibrant energy compared with stodgy old Australia creaking at its wobbly Anglo-Celtic knees. We particularly noted the “Artist and Empire – (En)countering Colonial Legacies” exhibition at the new National Gallery, full of surprises and…
Australia Day used to be an occasion on which there was much soul-searching about national identity and good for an airing about the Republic. This year, ARM launches a new branding as the “Australian Republic Movement” rather than the “Australian Republican Movement”…
Very unfortunate it is but the advent of Donald J Trump as the elected President of the United States of America – even though he didn’t win the popular vote – is not going to do much for Australian women’s…
Commentators continue to write about the PM’s appearance and speech at the ARM anniversary dinner nearly two weeks after the event. This time, Amanda Vanstone reports about being accosted at a Liberal Party branch meeting by a monarchist infuriated that the PM had even attended…
The media has its eyes keenly trained on the Queen who turns 91 this year. There was extensive coverage of the her failure to attend a New Year church service due to a heavy cold with very regular reports about our head of state’s health and prospects. This…
Suddenly ABC TV has gone all British royal. Christmas Day programs have a distinctly regal feel about them. Evening ABC 1 started with the Queen’s Christmas Message at 7.20pm, followed by the Royal Variety Performance presided over by Charles and Camilla, then…
There was a wide-ranging and extended response to the ARM dinner speech. Following one such article in The Canberra Times that called for an immediate referendum without any preliminary plebiscites, National Convenor Sarah Brasch, wrote to the paper to set out the…
Guest speaker, PM Malcolm Turnbull at the ARM 25th Anniversary Dinner held in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney, looks hot as well as exhausted. Wearing a blue tie, he distances himself from todays republic(an) movement as fast as he can…
