The same-sex marriage plebiscite was effectively canned when the ALP (with The Greens, Senator Hinch and the three NXT senators) decided not to vote for it. Thus, the Government does not have enough support in the Senate to get the enabling bill passed; so end of…
ABC deems it newsworthy to remind us that Kate and William plus heirs (both of them) in tow are now on their second visit to Canada. Thankfully, we do not get the minute-by-minute coverage of the Queen’s very large extended family that prevails in…
The Prime Minister himself tables the same-sex marriage plebiscite bill in the House of Representatives. The bill confirms the details that had been made public two days earlier (see News of 13 September) as well as some others: the result will be…
According to Chris Mitchell’s new book – he being the former editor of The Australian newspaper – Tony Abbott told him that the Queen ‘had made it known’ (to the then Prime Minister whose honours system it was) that she wished for Prince…
What we know so far. The question for the 11 February 2017 poll is: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?” (appears straightforward). Voting will be compulsory – compared with voluntary voting for the three-choice 1977…
In an interview on ABC Classic FM radio, composer Deborah Cheetham describes the main theme of her opera “Pecan Summer” as ‘belonging’. She says that this is a key element in all her work which focuses on Indigenous people and…
After the Government took a policy to the July election to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, lobbying has increased about the form that the vote will take with the Prime Minister and various of his Ministers making statements about…
WfaAR strongly disagrees with the comments of Lyle Sheldon, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, as reported in the media: “This is a bigger decision than the republic because it’s redefining marriage and families…this is a bigger decision than…
ARM launches a new Women’s Network after it found that the vast majority of new members in the last 18 months were male. Special guests at the $150 a head lunch were Marina Go, General Manager of Bauer/Hearst Media, Chair of Wests Tigers and Belinda Hutchinson, Chancellor of Sydney…
As things begin to shake out after the Brexit vote in the UK, WfaAR recalls Boris Johnson’s visit to Australia in 2014 during which he encouraged much closer ties between the two countries. One of his reasons was because we share the same head…
