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…
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…
