The number of women on ARM’s National Council continues to decline. After this years election, there are no women elected to Council and only one official member, SA Convenor, Lyn Petrie.
WfaAR contributes to public consultation on the Anzac Centenary. We say this commemoration should be inclusive and low-key. In particular, it should be forward-looking encompassing changes like the Republic, not acting against national developments by enshrining conservatism, Britishness and the…
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has agreed with the Greens to hold referendums during the new Government’s three year term, or at the next election, on Indigenous recognition and recognition of local government in the Constitution. The prospect of referendums also holds promise for non-binding…
Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on the eve of the election, Julia Gillard was asked what she would do in the next three years to get Australia ready for transition to a republic. Among the familiar barrage…
Late in the election campaign, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says in Townsville that the best time for change to a Republic would be following a change of monarch. She also said that the QEII should be the final queen of Australia despite…
WfaAR writes to The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times about what might happen to the Republic push if the Coalition wins this weeks election. The National Convenor’s letter is published in The Canberra Times: “Voters should indeed be…
The Prime Minister expanded on views about Australia becoming a republic in an interview with four journalists in Melbourne. There were two new lowlights: firstly that she sees herself as a participant in a future debate about the republic rather than…
Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, announces that the next Labor Government would hold a referendum to introduce constitutional recognition of our First Peoples. To do this, the Government will seek bipartisan support from the Opposition. No timing for the vote was…
Women for an Australian Republic, Real Republic and ARM issue a policy statement for the 2010 election calling on all political parties and candidates to lift their game and start talking about the nation’s future as a republic because it affects all…
This is what Julia Gillard says about the Republic in her lengthy WW interview: “I am a republican. It’s a continuing debate. I think the debate has cooled. I get a sense that the next time the nation will really think…
