ARM National Council member, Jenny Hocking, continues to wind up the Meghan and Harry interview as a major driver towards our Republic (we don’t agree) but the foot of her article reveals ARM’s core elements for putting “a model” successfully…
In among the Meghan and Harry dramas, we return to the important business of our own constitutional change with some pertinent words from Noel Pearson about advancing Indigenous Recognition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Pearson asks five…
Galvanised by the Meghan and Harry interview, ARM suddenly announces that it will reveal a “Model”, presumably about how to select the Head of State, “later in the year”. The intention now is to bypass preliminary plebiscites and go straight…
The tell-all Harry and Meghan interview with Oprah Winfrey has some republican campaigners, principally those at ARM, all in a spin. They think it will kickstart the demand for a Republic among the public at large. WfaAR doesn’t agree. Our…
Ahead of the Oprah Winfrey interview, Catherine Bennett in The Guardian gets in with her take on the Sussexes, their royal relatives, strange habits in the palaces and hope for republicans. This is a good balance but not enough to…
Anne Twomey confirms that the Queen has also interfered in the drafting of laws intended to be put to the parliaments of Australia and New Zealand. In the Australian example, it involved the Australia Act 1986 no less and concerned…
The UK media reveals that our Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, has the power to intervene in draft bills before they are tabled in the UK Parliament. This is known as “Queen’s Consent”. She is able to suggest drafting changes to…
The new year started with an unilateral announcement from the Prime Minister that one word in the national song is to change. “Young” – to which Indigenous people have rightly objected – is to become “one” as in “one and…
Not much it seems despite their regular appearances in the women’s magazines, the tabloids and, increasingly, on our screens.The controversy over the accuracy of The Crown continues but it also flushes out the circles of reverential royal experts and biographers…
British media observer, Phil Harrison discusses the controversy over “The Crown” – how much of it is fiction? how much is intended to be fiction? – at the start of an intense six months scrutiny of the British Royal Family…
