Senator Lisa Singh says Australia’s collective shock on hearing the announcement underscores why the monarchy is an anachronism for us and how alien the concept of knighthoods is to our contemporary identity. She also comments that the Prime Minister and his government are looking…
A national competition will be held to find a new design (the fifth; the last one dates to 1970) for the 45th anniversary of independence from the UK on 10 October this year. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said, “The Union flag belongs to the British,…
With memberships of the ARM shifting sharply upwards after the Prince Phillip knighthood, the PM has single-handedly restarted community interest in the Republic. David Flint from ACM described it as “a storm in a teacup” that would blow over in…
New Zealand born artist, Colin Lanceley (1938-2015), came to Australia in 1940. After 20 years living in the UK from the mid 1960s, he returned to Australia and became a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement in the early 1990s. He was a member…
Larissa Behrendt writes that the campaign for constitutional recognition has stalled in the absence of a model. Unlike the republic, she says, this one needs a model to debate. She continues: “People will not vote YES for things they are unsure about, and…
Australia Day finds WfaAR in La Repubblica Italia (a real republic with real Presidential elections) waking up to the news that Prince Phillip had been made a Knight, the highest rank of Australian Knighthoods – approved by the Queen of Australia herself on…
Saying he was there to “do a favour for a mate”, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten managed to squeeze in four sentences about the desirability of supporting an Australian as head of state – and even for a Republic – in a four page…
Jacqueline Maley nails it in the Fairfax Press. She says as if last years knighthoods and dameships conferred by the Queen of Australia aren’t bad enough, now we have other Australian royals behaving badly – Prince Charles, to be our next King, interfering…
If the Brits won’t accept this habit in a future monarch of theirs, why should we in ours? It is the same person revealing how stretched and silly the arrangement is. There is no guarantee that Charles III won’t start meddling in our…
Excellent work from Louise Rugendyke of Fairfax, just as journalists should do. Reviewing the weeks TV offerings in The Guide, she recommends the Queen’s Christmas message (ABC 1, Thurs 1920) and then comments: “…It’s also more proof that the Queen is a…
