This year our thoughts turn to the ranking of women in the British royal family, our royal family too. In a recent documentary, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was described as having become the second most important woman in the United Kingdom…
The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters tables its report into the problems with eligibility to be a member of federal Parliament under s44 of the Constitution and recommends that the Government put amendments to update the law at referendum. Predictably…
Canberra Times correspondent, John Walker of Queanbeyan, has the last and best laugh on the birth of the latest heir to the Australian throne that took place on 23 April. Here’s what he had to say to the Editor: “I am pleased to announce…
The unanimous decision by 53 member countries of the Commonwealth to anoint Prince Charles as the next head of the now defunct British Empire only shows the white Anglo establishment personified by the remaining Dominions ie Canada, Australia and New Zealand for what it is: worthy…
As well as Charles and Camilla on location for the Commonwealth Games and an oddly restricted ramble through North Queensland and the Northern Territory plus a side trip to Vanuatu that featured a very large number of Indigenous people in both countries inexplicably enthused by the royal…
Megan Davis packs multiple punches in her Monthly essay on Rethinking the Republic. Viewing the proposed change nearly 20 years from her own standpoint and that of our First Peoples – as opposed to mainstream republican exponents who today offer the same old stuff as they…
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….
