In the aftermath of another torrid Australia Day, a letter writer to The Canberra Times captures the mood of Brexit day perfectly: “Following Brexit and Megxit, it’s time for Ozexit. Aren’t we mature enough to select a workable system of government…
Wise but also tough words from Sydney author and architecture critic Elizabeth Farrelly who writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald. She essentially labels modern Australia as a country unable to listen or heed. She poses the questions for an Australia…
The Australian newspaper reports that “Government House” and the National Archives of Australia made an agreement in 1991, approved by our Head of State Queen Elizabeth II, that provided for the letters of Governors-General Casey, Hasluck, Kerr, Cowen and Stephen to be released after…
Meghan and Harry have quit the British Royal family, so should we. It would be a good time to do it as Australia contemplates the future of its Federation in light of the summer’s dangerous, destructive and crippling bushfires. The Guardian described the British…
Officially the Voice Co-Design Senior Advisory Group is named by Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt. It has 19 members (too many) and most are Indigenous people with very high public profiles. Excellent to see so many good women on the group including Marcia Langton (co-chair),…
WfaAR cannot believe it is still campaigning. But we are and we won’t be stopping until the job is done. The anniversary was low-key with opinion editorials and interviews in the media; republicans commiserated on Twitter and restated their commitment to…
The date for Brexit came and went to be followed by the inevitable UK general election. We can pause to survey the carnage of the last four months in our so-called mother country, the one that bequeathed our institutions, law and customs…
WfaAR members amuse themselves watching and listening to what was supposed to be the final throes of the Brexit debate in The Commons on live-streaming. For some time, there were reprises for and against the running and rerunning of referendums. We seem to have…
Minister Ken Wyatt says he’s taking a new plan for the Indigenous Recognition referendum to the Prime Minister. This involves a series of propositions for legislating, not enshrining in the Constitution, the Voice to Parliament; truth telling and constitutional recognition. A referendum on the…
It was highly inappropriate for recently appointed Governor-General, David Hurley, ex Australian Army General, to be speaking – if not spruiking – at the National Prayer Breakfast, Parliament House in Canberra on 14 October. Not only is our country secular but many faiths are represented…
