What we know so far. The question for the 11 February 2017 poll is: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?” (appears straightforward). Voting will be compulsory – compared with voluntary voting for the three-choice 1977…
In an interview on ABC Classic FM radio, composer Deborah Cheetham describes the main theme of her opera “Pecan Summer” as ‘belonging’. She says that this is a key element in all her work which focuses on Indigenous people and…
After the Government took a policy to the July election to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, lobbying has increased about the form that the vote will take with the Prime Minister and various of his Ministers making statements about…
WfaAR strongly disagrees with the comments of Lyle Sheldon, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, as reported in the media: “This is a bigger decision than the republic because it’s redefining marriage and families…this is a bigger decision than…
ARM launches a new Women’s Network after it found that the vast majority of new members in the last 18 months were male. Special guests at the $150 a head lunch were Marina Go, General Manager of Bauer/Hearst Media, Chair of Wests Tigers and Belinda Hutchinson, Chancellor of Sydney…
As things begin to shake out after the Brexit vote in the UK, WfaAR recalls Boris Johnson’s visit to Australia in 2014 during which he encouraged much closer ties between the two countries. One of his reasons was because we share the same head…
The double-dissolution election brought a substantial number of newly elected federal parliamentarians. ARM had launched a republic register of candidates during the election campaign and this has been updated to reflect the results. The current state of the Parliament is:…
ARM got a bit carried away with the Brexit result declaring that it heralded a new dawn for the Republic that would be a shoo-in because the British people had voted for ‘independence’ – and so should we ie from…
The final Brexit vote was 52/48, not 55/45 but still close, turnout (non compulsory) was 72 percent. The interesting thing was that the proposition to Remain – assumed to be the majority position – went down in a clear anti-Government,…
During the federal election campaign, the Greens announce a new proposal for a network of citizens’ forums to help formulate a threshold question on whether we should become a Republic. If that vote was successful, a national convention would work on a…
