With Kim Beazley’s appointment as the next Governor of Western Australia, the former Labor leader, Deputy Prime Minister and Ambassador to the US joins a growing list of known republic supporters going over to the other side (also Quentin Bryce and…
The museum, losing around $1m a year, has been closed by the Ballarat City Council. Its best-known exhibit, the 1854 Eureka Stockade flag, is to be rehoused in a new visitors centre in the city. Seems Australian democracy didn’t pay all that well and couldn’t attract the masses. This…
The highly publicised exhibition of Cartier treasures opens at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra making much of its royal connections and patronage. There’s a whole room of objects lent from the Royal Collection by the English Queen and aristocrats including the famous Windsor Halo Tiara although,…
The date for New Caledonia’s independence referendum has been announced: 18 November. It has been a long time coming after first being scheduled in 2014 and is strongly supported by the Indigenous Kanaks, making up 45 percent of the total population….
In a thrillingly analytical pre-cursor to Megan Davis’ commentary in the April edition of The Monthly (see News Update of 2 April 2018) comes republican historian Mark McKenna’s Quarterly Essay on the history of contact and Indigenous petitioning for recognition and acknowledgement. Almost at the…
Get ready for the next round of royal gushing. Harry and Meghan front the cover of this months Women’s Weekly while the article inside provides no new news on the next British royal nuptials other than a few photos. An article…
Three weeks of federal political soap opera lead WfaAR to muse how useful it would be to have a proper Head of State to provide wise counsel to the Prime Minister and solace to the nation as voters looked on…
The ACT ARM Women’s Network invited three Canberra women to join one of its panels: Diana Abdul-Rahman, multi-cultural adviser and activist, spoke on the Republic and identity; Kate Carnell, former ACT Chief Minister now Small Business Ombudsman who attended the 1998 Constitutional…
Dr Benjamin T Jones’ book, “This Time, Australia’s Republican Past and Future” is launched in Canberra. Its’ a shortish, easy read and the engaging text skates through our republican history from 1788 to 1999, both extensively researched and sourced. The launch function was followed…
The dilemma over who should take over as Head of the Commonwealth when Queen Elizabeth II dies has been covered previously on this website but it has bobbed up again. Media in Britain report that preliminary officials meetings were considering the matter in order…
