The Succession to the Crown bill 2015 is tabled in the House of Representatives with first and second reading speeches by Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Christian Porter, Lib WA, before debate was adjourned. The 13 page bill and explanatory memorandum are both clinical affairs…
What are the prospects for the Republic if Malcolm Turnbull were Prime Minister? National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, writes on this subject for Independent Australia online, click on link below. She is not optimistic but takes the opportunity to make some suggestions about…
Allison Henry, Junior Vice President of the Australian Republican Movement takes over temporarily as National Director after the departure of David Morris. (Timothy Mayfield was appointed to the ND’s job on 27 May 2015.)
A woman who would have made a great Austalian head of state. We could have all voted for her. Farewell to Republican Faith Bandler, a person of enormous dignity, wealth of experience, foresight, patience, gravitas and commonsense: the real deal. See our News Item of 25 May 2007 and click…
Senator Lisa Singh says Australia’s collective shock on hearing the announcement underscores why the monarchy is an anachronism for us and how alien the concept of knighthoods is to our contemporary identity. She also comments that the Prime Minister and his government are looking…
A national competition will be held to find a new design (the fifth; the last one dates to 1970) for the 45th anniversary of independence from the UK on 10 October this year. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said, “The Union flag belongs to the British,…
With memberships of the ARM shifting sharply upwards after the Prince Phillip knighthood, the PM has single-handedly restarted community interest in the Republic. David Flint from ACM described it as “a storm in a teacup” that would blow over in…
New Zealand born artist, Colin Lanceley (1938-2015), came to Australia in 1940. After 20 years living in the UK from the mid 1960s, he returned to Australia and became a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement in the early 1990s. He was a member…
Larissa Behrendt writes that the campaign for constitutional recognition has stalled in the absence of a model. Unlike the republic, she says, this one needs a model to debate. She continues: “People will not vote YES for things they are unsure about, and…
Australia Day finds WfaAR in La Repubblica Italia (a real republic with real Presidential elections) waking up to the news that Prince Phillip had been made a Knight, the highest rank of Australian Knighthoods – approved by the Queen of Australia herself on…
