Michelle Wood, in an op ed in the SMH, not only loves Kate’s shiny hair but also has a crush on Prince Harry. But she doesn’t expect them to do anything “but entertain me and that is why, despite their…
Published on the day that the royals arrive in town, the Fairfax-Nielsen snap poll shows 42 percent of women favour a republic (compared with 51 percent of men). In this poll, both results have shifted upwards from the late 1990s…
“In that order please”: Scottish, Melbourne-based freelance journalist and editor writing on politics, culture and society, Andrea Maltman, spells out the Duchess of Cambridge’s role clearly, one that Kate has absorbed and accepted as exemplified by these core values, in three…
Really hot article by a really good Australian female republican. Jamila Rizvi editor of Mamamia, gets to the heart of celebrity and the republic. If you are a wavering female republican, conflicted by your feelings for Will and Kate, read…
New Zealand republicans are confidently protesting about their current royal visit. They challenge William to become a New Zealand citizen and emigrate so that he can properly represent them and say that they will never call him King because before…
The real purpose of royal visits (where princelings prove themselves capable of lasting the distance in trying conditions and win over the Antipodeans) is to convince “the people of Australia that having a royal family is a good thing”. William,…
The Australian Women’s Weekly has issued its April “Royal Visit Souvenir” edition featuring the heir to the heir to the heir to the Australian throne (at eight months) on its front cover. Celebrity cute but irrelevant. Better he had stayed…
Amanda Vanstone, former Howard government Minister and its best-known republican, writes in the SMH that Howard was right to label the Prime Minister’s new knights and dames awards as “anachronistic”. She says she can “find none among her Liberal mates…
So says Sophie Morris, Chief Political Correspondent for The Saturday Paper, noting that “monarchists and republicans are gearing up for the eventual showdown” – WfaAR doesn’t see it quite like that. The small number of monarchists aren’t “the enemy” given…
Rachael White asks why Quentin Bryce didn’t join the distinguished and exclusive group who have refused knighthoods. White says that titles have a long history of causing division – since the 1850s in fact. She also writes, “The outgoing Governor-…
