January is usually a time for raking over the coals on the Republic. So far, it’s been quiet. This year, the annual Australia Day schisms have been overshadowed by disputes over James Cook’s place in our history. Dr Benjamin T Jones’ conclusions in this…
Prince Philip, husband of our Head of State, is involved in a car accident near one of their large estates; in fact, he appears to have caused it. The next day an identical new car is delivered to the door, then he is seen…
Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer and human rights activist who challenged then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on his dismissive attitude towards a referendum on the Voice to Parliament on Q&A in December last year, writes in The Guardian. She…
The Honest History team holds a one-day seminar in Canberra to mark 5 years in action. There were two bursts on the Republic. The first covered the present state of support in the country with a considerable pick-up noted among…
New Caledonians vote in the long-awaited independence referendum. 56 percent to 44 percent chose to stay as part of France. Only long-standing residents, of both Kanak and European descent, were entitled to vote as a first step in creating the new country of Kanaky. The referendum, established as part of the peace settlement promised…
Results are declared in the latest ARM National Council elections held every two years. Michelle Wood, Alice Crawford, Jenny Hocking and Maggie Lloyd were chosen making them 40 percent of elected candidates. Of the 19 members of the full Council, including the Youth Convenor and the State…
Michael D Higgins is re-elected for a second term as President of the Republic of Ireland. After renominating for a second term of seven years (which he originally intended not to do), he was supported by three political parties but Sinn Fein decided…
Clare Wright’s new book “You Daughters of Freedom” is published today by Text. It covers the active lives of Dora Montefiore; Nellie Martel; Muriel Matters, Dora Coates Meeson and Vida Goldstein, five feminists who came out of the Australian suffragette movement of the late 19th century….
Opening today at the National Museum of Australia is the exhibition “Black Mist Burnt Country: Testing the Bomb, Maralinga and Australian Art”. The show uses painting, photography, sculpture and music to shine a light on the human and environmental impact of hundreds of British atomic tests, large and small, conducted in…
An exhibition of watercolours by Prince Charles opens at the NGA. His selection of 30 works from 2002 to 2016 spans the globe from scenes in the gardens of the royal estates in the UK, to landscapes in the Swiss mountains completed while…
