The close result in the UK election reminds us that Britain could also have come close to having a republic supporting Prime Minister in Jeremy Corbyn. Not our Republic, their republic! This notion got a few people excited, notably Peter Fitzsimons, Chair of ARM who thought that a President of Great…
Prince Harry launches the 2018 Invictus Games at Admiralty House in Sydney. An event that is being run by a not-for-profit charity into which the Australian and NSW Governments are tipping at least $7m, and probably much more, seems to have no problem…
A stroll through the rarely open Federation Gallery at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra reminds WfaAR how long it took to negotiate and draft the first Australian federal Constitution. Starting in 1890, it was considered by several constitutional conventions, the…
WfaAR National Convenor writes to The Canberra Times in response to a letter from Australian Monarchist League denying the link between the republic and reconciliation, a striking juxtaposition given the timing of the release of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We make…
Headlining NGV’s “Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s” from 2 June to 1 October is the 1994 work “Fake Flag” by Greek Australian artist, Constanze Zikos. In this work, the Union Jack bedecked Australian flag is given a new twist with stunning design and…
East Arnhem Land leaders call for Australia to become a Republic. They claim that removing the Queen would be more meaningful to Indigenous people than constitutional recognition and call for significant – not symbolic – new change to Australia’s system of government to…
The evening of Sorry Day found WfaAR at the National Gallery of Australia for an engrossing evening of Indigenous speakers: Aboriginal Black Power activist from the 1960s and 70s turned academic, Dr Gary Foley now at Victoria University in Melbourne; historical artist and…
Using the elegant legal drafting of a preamble, delegates of our First Peoples attending a constitutional convention release The Uluru Statement from the Heart. It was read by Professor Megan Davis as the sun set at Uluru. It states the never-ceded sovereignty of the Indigenous Nations through their…
The 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial opens at the National Gallery of Australia and runs until 10 September with the theme “Defying Empire”. The exhibition contains works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country who defy stereotypes, colonisation, definitions and untold stories….
Puerto Ricans will go to the polls on 11 June to decide if their country will become a State of the United States. This is the fourth such poll (it’s a plebiscite), the last one was in 2012 (80 percent turnout) but all…
