Princess Anne arrives for a four-day visit to Queensland. She makes no public appearances. Royal visit number two for the year and number five since 2011. Anne was last here in 2009 for the Victorian bushfire memorial where things got a…
Germaine Greer describes Kate Middleton as “too thin” and says “she should stop being a womb for the royal family”. She also says Kate has a bastard of a job because she has effectively “been put charge of William. “Kate is…
The close vote – including substantial concessions to cede power won even for the NO majority – resulted in calls for greater devolution from Westminster to parts of England; a review of the strength of the UK union and Nicola Sturgeon taking over as Scotland’s First Minister….
Very usefully the National Party government of Prime Minister John Key was returned at the NZ general election. After claiming victory, Key said that he wanted to accelerate the timing of the referendum to change the NZ flag and get rid of the…
While the Scottish were absorbing the results of their referendum, Prince William was on his way to Malta to represent the Queen of Australia at the 50th anniversary of independence and formation of the Republic. President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, said, “We respect the British…
The vote in the Scottish independence referendum went down 45:55 as expected. But there was much of interest to come out of it: Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister and leader of the independence campaign for many years, managed to get the vote up from…
Looking at the campaign overall, WfaAR predicts for NO at around 55 percent to around 45 percent YES, the same result as the 1999 republic referendum result in Australia.The economic and defence aspects of this decision, the need to be bigger rather…
Three polls out today and remarkably uniform – 48 percent YES and 52 percent NO. Reports of 5 percent still undecided. The postal vote return is very high, around 90 percent. Another poll shows 41 percent YES and 44 percent NO…
Here are some insights from Libby Brooks, Scottish reporter for The Guardian “Why Scotland’s Women are Swinging Towards YES in Independence Vote”, interviews with female voters – click on link below : working class and Labour voters moving strongly to YES in last weeks;…
The Indigenous Affairs Minister says that the referendum will now be held “in clear space” after the next election. Over the last week, the Government has been dampening expectations that the original timetable (this term) will be met and that the proposed…
