So said former Liberal Minister for Foreign Affairs and one-time PM aspirant, Julie Bishop – a strong republican – describing her escape when she launched the campaign for the Liberal member for Wentworth in Sydney ahead of the 2022 federal…
At the end of William and Kate’s tour to a number of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean that had the objective of marking and celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, things quickly unravelled into discussions of colonialism, slavery, reparations and open…
WfaAR writes to The Canberra Times to add to the early commentary on ARM’s “new” model for the Republic. We applaud ARM’s move but think it’s been rather too long coming as most others had moved on after the 1999…
After two years of discussions, polling and surveying, the Australian Republican Movement issued its new position on the vote for an Australian Head of State called the “Australian Choice” model exactly a fortnight before Australia Day on 26 January. ARM…
In a completely pointless move, the Prime Minister announces that a tiny, human-made mound in Lake Burley Griffin – on which the British Government’s 1963 gift of The Carillon for the 50th anniversary of Canberra is sited – would be…
The third and final independence referendum goes down by a very big margin in New Caledonia with 96.5 percent of formal votes rejecting the proposition. This was unexpected after 57 percent against in 2018 and 53 percent against in 2020….
There is much discussion about the speech given by Prince Charles at the formal handover ceremony to mark the new republic of Barbados (compare with the ceremony for Hong Kong in 1997) that addressed the subject of slavery pointing to…
At 00.00, the new Republic of Barbados comes into being, 55 years after it gained independence on 30 November 1966. Many years in the making, the final steps were seen through by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley with alacrity during…
Ceremonies and a formal handover take place in Barbados ahead of its reconstitution as a Republic the following day. Barbados is the first Commonwealth member state to become a Republic since Mauritius in 1992. Barbados’ objective was to “remove the…
A judge in Britain decides that Prince Philip’s will should be kept secret for 90 years because it is not “in the public interest” to release it. This sparked more speculation about the financial habits of the British Royal Family…
