Just over a week after the second and third in line heir to the Australian throne jetted out, the Orstaylians, Kiwis and solemn Anzac commemorations at 5.30am in Canberra long forgotten (at least the palace didn’t hand out a detailed fashion…
While we’re still fiddling around with post royal tour silliness, Scotland is getting on with the job. Women have been identified as a key target for the independence referendum in September. The Scottish Social Attitudes survey has consistently shown a gender gap…
After the excesses of its April Royal Visit story (see News for 1 April 2015) comes hot on its heels, the May edition with Kate and William on the front cover, Uluru towering above them and the headline “Kate and William ON TOUR and…
Stuart Heritage in The Guardian says he can’t hate seeing so many photos of Prince George but he can hate “those who make him a travelling sideshow”. He wonders when he will be able to hate the tiny prince, will…
By this stage, with a day to go, some people had either had enough or were so enamoured of the younger royals that they were keen to see them on the Australian throne sooner rather than later. There were calls…
Republican highlight of the royal visit was Prince George’s disdainful and immediate chuck of the toy bilby at Taronga Zoo. Quite clear what he thinks about the colonials. This part of the tour was bordering on the ridiculous with so…
Michelle Wood, in an op ed in the SMH, not only loves Kate’s shiny hair but also has a crush on Prince Harry. But she doesn’t expect them to do anything “but entertain me and that is why, despite their…
Published on the day that the royals arrive in town, the Fairfax-Nielsen snap poll shows 42 percent of women favour a republic (compared with 51 percent of men). In this poll, both results have shifted upwards from the late 1990s…
“In that order please”: Scottish, Melbourne-based freelance journalist and editor writing on politics, culture and society, Andrea Maltman, spells out the Duchess of Cambridge’s role clearly, one that Kate has absorbed and accepted as exemplified by these core values, in three…
Really hot article by a really good Australian female republican. Jamila Rizvi editor of Mamamia, gets to the heart of celebrity and the republic. If you are a wavering female republican, conflicted by your feelings for Will and Kate, read…
