The High Court decides 6-1 in favour of Professor Jenny Hocking’s bid to have 211 personal letters between our Head of State and Governor-General John Kerr released. The Court decided that the photocopies of the correspondence were Commonwealth property and, therefore, subject to the National Archives Act…
Right in Reconciliation Week comes confirmation – by way of tweets from the MInister for Indigenous Australians – that the Indigenous Recognition vote was not going to take place before 2022 and had been shunted to the next term of the federal…
The Greens release a new policy that piqued WfaAR’s interest: Let’s Recreate Australia. Not a surprising theme in the time of a pandemic which often brings about serious rethinking of history and the future at both personal and societal levels. But it wasn’t about the…
As the country began to slowdown and shutdown with strict pandemic prevention measures in place nationally, it is clear that public health and immediate economic issues would be the focus for at least the next 6 months. Non-survival topics like Indigenous Recognition and the Republic dropped instantly from public…
National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, meets with ARM Executive Director, Sandy Biar, in Sydney. The main topic for discussion was Direct Election. A useful exchange of views and mull over the details with general agreement about how we could directly elect a Head of State – other than ARM…
The Australian today reports that Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt has walked back from a commitment by the Morrison Government to hold a referendum on Indigenous recognition in this term after a backlash in the Coalition party room over the vote….
And still we identify with this organisation! The Commonwealth Secretariat in London is now the subject of a major financial and impropriety scandal. Australia is its third largest donor. To read further information, click on link below. Meanwhile, a reported divorce involving one of our…
The Australian Rugby League Commission has dropped playing of the national anthem at its annual All Stars match. The chair said today, “We have listened to our players’ concerns that the words of the anthem do not represent them or…
On 4 and 5 February, the High Court has heard submissions from opposing sides in Professor Jenny Hocking’s appeal to have the personal correspondence of GG John Kerr with our Head of State between 1974 and 1977 declared Commonwealth records. To do so, would allow the…
Paul Kelly released a new song early February with lyrics that explain how the country is sleep-walking towards inaction on climate change – and one might add long-overdue constitutional and governance change. Set to become a seminal Oz anthem, it is a lullaby as well as a wake-up…
