Having not been seen in public since 19 October, speculation about the longevity of the Queen’s reign continues unabated. ABC Online ponders the options in this piece – click on link – and notes that other monarchs have abdicated in…
Throughout the Commonwealth – if not the world – there is considerable media attention and speculation attaching to the facts that a) the Queen spent a night in hospital for “tests” only later revealed; b) she was advised to rest…
Dame Cindy Kiro starts her term as New Zealand’s new Governor-General after a distinguished career in the tertiary education sector with a focus on public health. She is of Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngati Kahu and British descent. She also has…
National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, represents Women for an Australian Republic at a Zoom round table of republicans, monarchists and constitutional lawyers involved in the Uluru Statement at the request of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and…
Former diplomat Mary Simon is appointed as Canada’s next Governor-General after a rocky couple of years during previous tenures in the office. She will be the first Inuk, Inuit speaking (but not French) Governor-General as well. The article on the…
ACT ARM holds a Women’s Network Workshop co-hosted by Christine Butterfield (ACT Branch Councillor) and Deborah Crossing National Women’s Network Coordinator and SA Branch Convenor zooming in from Adelaide. The group developed solutions and actions for ARM women to reach…
Nyadol Nyuon, lawyer, human rights advocate, Chair of Harmony Alliance: Migrant and Refugee Women for Change addresses the National Press Club in Canberra. On the Australian version of multiculturalism, Nyuon says it needs to “come of age” and recognise that…
Things are still ticking over in Barbados. Although little information is coming out of the Government – certainly no timetable – an Advisory Committee, headed by a woman, has been appointed to report to the Prime Minister in September on…
Comments about national identity are bobbing up everywhere at present – it’s a perennial. A townplanner discusses the failure of decentralisation in Australia where 80 percent of our population lives in coastal cities: “There is no discussion of developing a…
Tour de France time again. Stage 1, the Grand Depart, is in Brittany this year with the distinctive black and white Breton flags fluttering all along the roads of the route. This flag dates to 1923 and was designed by…
