King’s Birthday is celebrated for the first time as an annual, national public holiday in Australia. By 2023, this is tedious and repetitive but helpfully reminds us how hereditary monarchy works (goes on and on of its own accord), who…
Professor Margaret Gardner, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, is appointed by the Victorian Government as the State’s next Governor. Gardner is a republican and declared herself so in the media at the time of the announcement. She claims this is acceptable…
Taylah Gray says that the coronation left a sour taste in her mouth. The Indigenous activist joins others in demanding an apology from King Charles III for the impacts of British colonisation. Ms Gray is a lawyer and member of…
ARM releases survey results from April after the PM formally invites Charles and Camilla to visit Australia while in London for the coronation – hard to know if this is protocol as expected or genuine as they were also invited…
Eight months after the death of “our Queen” and her reverential, lengthy funeral rites, we finally get to see exactly what the British monarchy, to which Australia is still shackled, represents. Commentaries about slavery, the tyranny of colonialism, the wealth…
Helen Irving believes it is undemocratic to swear allegiance to King Charles at his coronation. In the modern style of congregation participation, all those attending the coronation will swear an oath to the newly crowned King (instead of this being…
Jenna Price in The Canberra Times takes up the subject of the controversial oath of allegiance. She highlighted what happened when “narrowcaster” Piers Morgan interviewed our PM in London and asked if he would swear allegiance to the King, Albanese…
The Australian Government was able to invite 14 official guests to the Coronation, a long way short of the 250 that attended the 1953 version. Most were well known expats living or currently working in the UK including Matildas captain…
Marina Go writing about the forthcoming coronation ceremony says “King Charles is our nation’s highest office bearer and because he’s also Britain’s head of state, he does not – and will never – put our nation first.” This she says…
Momentous day for federal constitutional change in Australia as the Prime Minister announces the draft question to be put to referendum later this year to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and enshrine their Voice to Parliament in the…
