The ACT will have a new public holiday in 2018 for Reconciliation Day. Greens member of the Legislative Assembly, Caroline Le Couteur, welcomed the new day-off but also called on the Assembly to change the date of Australia Day as it marked a…
One of the founding members of the Australian Republican Movement, Geraldine Doogue, was invited to attend the Democracy 100 event at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Canberra. MOAD co-hosted the event with the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis at the University…
This day found WfaAR at Aras an Uachtarain, known locally as “the Aras” – the residence of the President of Ireland. The house and the formal gardens with trees planted by Queen Victoria and other British royal visitors, are open to the public every Saturday…
WfaAR conducts a workshop for the 2017 national conference of the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) at the ANU in Canberra attended by 250 women from campuses across the country. Results from the voting exercise were that the young women attending favoured…
Ex-astronaut Julie Payette is appointed as Canada’s next Governor-General, the fourth woman to represent the Queen of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the recommendation to the Queen, who approved it, bypassing the selection panel put in place by his conservative predecessor,…
ARM adopts its first national policy and strategy to attract more women to support the Republic. This long overdue development – an issue that WfaAR has long urged ARM to address directly – was the result of lengthy deliberations within ARM. Women’s support…
Monash University academic and Whitlam biographer, Professor Jenny Hocking is pursuing the release of letters from the Palace written at the time of The Dismissal. She says, “Pressure is building on the Prime Minister to intervene in the long-running dispute over…
QB long weekend found WfaAR working at its usual routine while most people were taking a holiday. This led to musings about the small number of (very small) businesses – mostly – that don’t observe our Head of State’s birthday with a day…
For her birthday, Sydney University’s Oliver Watt muses on the genius of our Head of State’s development of the contemporary crown with stylish, tall hats. He writes, “The hat is an example par excellence of aristocratic excess, the equivalent of a peacock’s…
Results of vote (see News for 22 May): 97.18 percent of votes cast in favour of US statehood on a very low turnout of 22.99 percent. The non-binding referendum was the fifth vote in Puerto Rico’s history since 1493 on becoming part of the…
