Quentin Bryce concludes her final Boyer lecture: “Advance Australia Fair”, by saying she hopes Australia might become a nation where “people are free to love and marry whom they choose. And where perhaps, my friends, one day, one young girl or boy…
The National Archives of Australia, the repository of Commonwealth Government records, presents a copy of the Larrakia petition from its collection to the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation. Signed by hundreds of Indigenous people, the petition appealed to Queen Elizabeth II, now Queen of …
Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, presents a new role for the vice-regal representative by giving the 2013 Boyer Lectures on the ABC, a prestige series of four talks, significant for their contribution to our social history, national identity and nomination of important future challenges for national contemplation. Departing from the usual low…
An obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald records that Myfanwy Gollan (1933-2013), partner of well-known public intellectual, republican and anti White Australia Policy activist Donald Horne, was a passionate campaigner in her own right. Ms Gollan was an organiser of the Citizens for Democracy campaign from 1976 to…
Crown Prince Frederick and, Australian-born, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark in jeans and runners (that went down very well) make a fine job of visiting people in the Blue Mountains affected by destructive bushfires in the last week. It is very obvious that we don’t need the…
In “The Stalking of Julia Gillard, how the Media and Team Rudd brought down the Prime Minister”, Kerry-Anne Walsh writes when speaking of CHOGM in Perth in late 2011, “Strangely, Aussies love this woman with the jarring title Queen of Australia……”…
Suddenly, “sovereignty” is in vogue. PM Abbott is talking about Australia’s sovereignty, Indonesia’s sovereignty and we have Operation Sovereign Borders in place to keep out people seeking asylum by boat. So Australia is making it pretty clear that we are our…
Tanya Gold takes the institution of the British monarchy and its many members to (expensive) task in her Guardian article about the increasing amounts that it costs British taxpayers to keep them and the evasion that goes with it. WfaAR also notes the unfavourable…
Really good article by Emma-Kate Symons in the AFR that exposes even more fawning over the royals on pointless and costly visits to Australia. Now, new PM Abbott ups the ante after Julia Gillard’s terrible efforts during the Queen’s visit in…
Prince Harry’s presence at the International Fleet Review only shows we have come full circle since 1988 when the current republican campaign kicked off as Malcolm Turnbull observed Charles and Diana officially overseeing the Bicentennary celebrations. Harry stood alongside the Governor-General who already does the job representing the Queen of Australia….
