Letter in todays SMH from Naomi Brown, North Perth WA: “I will join Team Australia when the club president is an Australian, not a British person living in a palace”.
One month from the referendum for Scottish independence, follow Women for Independence – a group making space for women’s voices to ensure their concerns, hopes and aspirations for an independent Scotland are considered and promoted. It is an open and diverse network of women who support independence working with others…
Australian PM Tony Abbott manages to say that people who support Scottish independence are friends of neither justice nor freedom. He contends – offering the strange notion that it would be better “for the world” – that Scotland should stay in the United Kingdom to shore up…
A poll of women voters in Scotland (1,000 respondents) finds that only 40 percent intend to vote YES. This compares with July (40); June (41); May (38) and April (36). The most crucial factor in voting for both women and men…
With the gender gap in Scotland currently at around 12 percent, it is now labelled “persistent”, having first shown up in May at this level. Where women and men seem to differ is in their level of certainty about what independence would…
53m people are eligible to vote in Turkey’s first elections for its President, the 12th President of the Turkish republic. Previously, the President was elected by members of Parliament.The election consists of two ballots; no further ballot is required if one candidate…
Legal Commentator, Crispin Hull, says that the eight referendums passed since Federation in 1901 were all defective and unnecessary as most could have been achieved by legislation. He goes on to say that we should stop fiddling around the edges of…
“We were sort of having a joke today because the Queen [of Australia] was in the dining hall for lunch and everyone’s going ‘The Queen is here! The Queen is here!’ I said ‘Anna’s here every lunchtime guys. She’s the queen…
At the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games – where Australia wins more medals than everyone else because there’s not much competition – Scotland and all things Scottish are on show ahead of the independence referendum on 18 September. Who knows what…
This is pretty weak response with no mention of the R word. The fact is that we won’t or won’t be required to quit the Commonwealth as 37 of the 54 members are already republics. In response to a media query ahead of this years event, Kathy…
