This announcement was as sudden as it was striking as it gave concrete form to the plummeting reputation of the Games – not to mention the Commonwealth itself – with no guarantee that they will ever held again. According to…
In an interesting article outlining the history and development of our Constitution in the lead up to Federation in 1901, Julianne Schultz explains why the current version of our “foundational” law, largely unchanged since then, is not sacred or set…
Whoever would have thought….the stuffy old ball game that Britain bequeathed to its empire as a catalyst for the Australian republic. Nothing is more contested, promoting national pride and interest in both hemispheres than any cricket series between England and…
The Indigenous Recognition Referendum bill passes the Senate 52-19 after debate over several days. We now have the precise proposition to be put to referendum between 19 August and 19 December 2023. This is the first stage of becoming a…
A recent survey reveals only 43 percent of Australian women (compared with 62 percent of men) are very or extremely interested in news.This proportion of women has fallen by 16 percentage points since 2017 compared to a 6 percentage points…
In the third of the Australia Speaks series held at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, Cathy McGowan emphasises the new – and successful – political action that is based in and around community rather than the narrow and…
King’s Birthday is celebrated for the first time as an annual, national public holiday in Australia. By 2023, this is tedious and repetitive but helpfully reminds us how hereditary monarchy works (goes on and on of its own accord), who…
Professor Margaret Gardner, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, is appointed by the Victorian Government as the State’s next Governor. Gardner is a republican and declared herself so in the media at the time of the announcement. She claims this is acceptable…
Taylah Gray says that the coronation left a sour taste in her mouth. The Indigenous activist joins others in demanding an apology from King Charles III for the impacts of British colonisation. Ms Gray is a lawyer and member of…
ARM releases survey results from April after the PM formally invites Charles and Camilla to visit Australia while in London for the coronation – hard to know if this is protocol as expected or genuine as they were also invited…
