The Prime Minister of Barbados has named 30 November 2016 as the date for the country to become a republic with a ceremonial president on the 50th anniversary of becoming a sovereign state. Like New Zealand, Barbados is following through…
With a lead-in lush picture of Diana and Charles in Newcastle during the 1983 royal tour, where your gaze is immediately drawn to Diana radiant in pale pink, hardly noticing our next King, we find out seven pages later that the Australian Women’s…
Charles and Camilla jet out after a low-key inspection of the colony reputed to have cost taxpayers $500,000, probably a modest estimate of the true costs. Similar to their 2012 visit, they attended highly stage-managed events indulging their interests and mixing with…
Sophie Morris, Chief Political Correspondent for The Saturday Paper, chooses the new PM’s weak pursuit of his republic aim thus far as the theme for her Page 1 article. She says he is “now content to let the ALP steal the debate’s…
Yes, they will arrive on 9 November for the seventh royal visit in four years, keeping up the practice of one visit a year by the Queen’s immediate heirs since 2011. Charles and Camilla were last here in 2012 on the Diamond Jubilee tour. Judith Ireland, a national…
Prime Minister Turnbull announces the end of dames and knights. He said that Cabinet recently reconsidered the Order of Australia and concluded these awards do not belong in a modern Australian honours system. Nor, WfaAR says, do awards copying Britain’s hierarchical class system sit easily in our equality-based society that lacks a…
Elizabeth Farrelly comments “Flags, like republics are trivialities. Mere symbols. Winged imagery. Australians, being pragmatists, prefer concrete achievements….But, it’s also true that, when rapid directional change is needed, symbolism can have immense power” (like, WfaAR says, appointing the first female Defence Minister, also a strong…
It did not take long. Another design (“The Red Peak”) is today added to the choice for the new New Zealand flag after 50,000 people signed a petition and a relentless social media campaign. Click on link below to see this design – still no green…
As well as Senator Katy Gallagher (ALP ACT), there are other Labor women active on the republic in Parliament. Labor for an Australian Republic was formed in February 2012. Four of the State and Territory Parliamentary Convenors are currently women: Terri Butler (Member for…
Malcolm Turnbull taking over as Prime Minister heralds the first PM/Leader of the Opposition combination in favour of a Republic at the helm of the national government since Turnbull was Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister was Labor’s Kevin Rudd between September…
