Professor Megan Davis gives the Mabo oration in Adelaide. In her speech, she identifies The Voice enshrined in the Constitution as the final step – the social justice package – of the unfinished political settlement that followed from the Mabo…
Sydney artist Jennifer Keeler-Milne talks about spring 2020 after the Covid lockdowns. “After getting through winter, I felt this urge to create something around wattle. It’s uplifting, glorious and native. Yellow, the predominant colour of wattle, has been a joy…
Photographs and media reports are emerging of Prime Minister Morrison arriving at RAAF bases. There he walks a red carpet and is greeted by an offical military welcoming party presenting arms that Defence terms a “Ceremonial Stairway Guard”. This is…
WfaAR’s submission to the consultation process for The Voice Co-design process is attached below. We support The Voice being enshrined in the Constitution as a necessary precursor to any vote on the Republic so the whole country can come together…
It is fully televised of course. We could see the distinctive, brilliant blue and wattle gold of his Australian knighthood on the right-hand side of the altar elevated on a handmade cushion. The award was also read out among his…
It is sobering to read Afua Hirsch’s commentary on the death of Prince Philip in support of her stance that “royals’ good deeds and charitable endeavours are not, in themselves, justification for the monarchy”. This article was published in Britain…
Prince Philip, consort of our Head of State and controversally awarded an Australian knighthood in 2015 before these honours were abolished, dies at Windsor Castle aged 99. This news was a jolt for republicans who suddenly realised that there was…
Amanda Vanstone agrees with WfaAR in her analysis of the post Meghan and Harry interview pile-on. “What has come over some republicans?” she writes, “Apparently enthused by the current soap opera clouding the House of Windsor, they are planning to…
In a neat metaphor for a Republic with some uniquely Australian elements, we note that the Sydney Philharmonia Choir has performed a new version of Bach’s St John Passion by inserting three newly commissioned pieces by Australians at suitable places…
Thinking about it for 24 hours, here are WfaAR’s principles for Republic referendum success: – the people should be asked in one or more non-binding votes about the form of the Republic and the role of the Head of State,…
