And so the Act of Recognition, and with it the promise of the referendum on Indigenous Recognition, expires at the end of its two year time limit. There is now no firm date set for this referendum – seriously the first step to the Republic…
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announces that Barbados will remove the Queen and create a ceremonial President for his small Caribbean country colonised by the British in 1627. Barbados became independent in 1966 and has also in the last few years…
To add to the amazing qualities of his mother that were revealed during the Diamond Jubilee, we now discover from his latest biographer that Prince Charles is a sexy, mesmerising dancer and doesn’t need to use the bathroom because “he…
The Commonwealth bill was finally passed by the national Parliament on 19 March and assented into law on 24 March after more than three years in the making. With finesse in coordination, the Governor-General proclaimed the law to commence at…
Speeches in both the House of Representatives (17 March) and the Senate (19 March) were made by a number of female MPs including in the Senate: Senator Jacinta Collins (Lab NSW) and Senator Christine Milne (Greens Tas) and in the House of Representatives:…
After the determined efforts of the Newman Liberal National Government in Queensland to reinforce the monarchy at every turn, there is hope that things will change – and change back – under the new Labor Government elected in January. Find out what the…
The Succession to the Crown bill 2015 is tabled in the House of Representatives with first and second reading speeches by Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Christian Porter, Lib WA, before debate was adjourned. The 13 page bill and explanatory memorandum are both clinical affairs…
What are the prospects for the Republic if Malcolm Turnbull were Prime Minister? National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, writes on this subject for Independent Australia online, click on link below. She is not optimistic but takes the opportunity to make some suggestions about…
Allison Henry, Junior Vice President of the Australian Republican Movement takes over temporarily as National Director after the departure of David Morris. (Timothy Mayfield was appointed to the ND’s job on 27 May 2015.)
A woman who would have made a great Austalian head of state. We could have all voted for her. Farewell to Republican Faith Bandler, a person of enormous dignity, wealth of experience, foresight, patience, gravitas and commonsense: the real deal. See our News Item of 25 May 2007 and click…
