Tasmanian blogger, Meg Bignell, is thinking about the republic and whether she should vote YES next time. Find her take on the pros and cons at: http://megoracle.com for 5 December 2012.
A Morgan Poll taken 27-29 November, following the royal visit for the Diamond Jubilee, showed that support for the monarchy had declined by six percent since June 2012. 622 people were asked by phone: “In your opinion, should Australia remain a…
Advancing Democracy launches a new proposal to improve the Constitution that removes the monarchy from our foundation document. The No Queen by 2015 petition can be found at: http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/no-queen-by-2015.
Senator Lisa Singh (Tas), speaks in the Senate about the recent launch of the ARM’s Our Identity campaign (www.ouridentity.org.au) in Hobart. She also mentions the ALP’s new Policy Action Caucus supporting the movement for a republic. She says that the group called Labor for an…
A memorial service attended by the Governor-General, is held for feminist activist and republican, Joan Bielski. Joan would have been highly indignant that the event, held in Parliament House Sydney, was overlooked by signed photo-portraits of the Queen and Prince Phillip. Joan…
Women just elected to ARM’s national council are Michelle Wood (NSW) Kathy Schoo and Deborah Crossing (both from the ACT), Rhiannon Newman (SA) and Kathleen Jones (Qld). Half the elected council members are now women. This is a big step forward for ARM as…
In an interview on ABC Radio Melbourne, writer Amanda Lohrey says that she is interested in searching for “our disappearing republic”. WfaAR associate, Judith Brooks, quipped in reply that she knows how to lure it from its hole, “The Australian…
National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, writes to The Canberra Times about awful remarks made by the Prime Minister at the opening of Queen Elizabeth Terrace: “We were astonished to hear the PM refer to ‘the crimson thread of kinship’ in her…
Late afternoon and, thankfully, another tedious royal visit ends. The colonials have been inspected for six days by Charles and Camilla! Quite bizarre, especially the six scrubbed merinos in a pen atop the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney for a gig promoting our wool industry – Charles…
“Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country” is submitted to the Electoral Commission for 12 weeks of testing. Critics claim this wording is biassed towards a YES response. Sounds familiar. Research, it is also claimed, has shown that it…
