Things got feverish when news broke that Australia’s “Head of State” would be addressing the UN. No, it wasn’t the Governor-General who would be in New York. The argument over who is Australia’s Head of State was settled for once and for all by the Buckingham Palace statement notifying that the…
A Royal vistor’s presence renews speculation about a second referendum on the Republic. Attorney-General, Robert McClelland says the Republic is an obvious question to include in the next referendum if Labor wins this years election. Other topics at the top of the list are recognition of (a) our…
Helen McCabe, Editor-in-Chief of the Women’s Weekly says that the magazine has no plans to cover William’s visit to Australia. She writes that the Prince is now much more like his father in personality lacking both sparkle and an accompanying princess. She says that…
Kristina Keneally, American born NSW Premier, is interviewed after greeting Prince William on his arrival in Sydney. Although impressed by the Prince whom she described as “charming”, she says that she is a republican.
Sydney screen writer turned novelist and stauch republican of many years, Valda Marshall, has written The First President, a story of love and politics as Australia becomes a republic. The book is set in 1920s Adelaide and, later, in Sydney in 2016 when a woman discovers…
Marilyn Jessop of ACT ARM lets us in on what the Queen thinks of Australia’s reluctance to become a Republic after the annual National Republican Lecture. Her very clever address from the Queen of Australia in verse, and equally clever imitation of her very English accent, delighted the large audience…
WfaAR, together with the Australian Republican Movement and Real Republic representatives, laid baskets of black wattle on the Foundation Stone in front of Parliament House in Canberra to mark the tenth anniversary of the failed referendum on the Republic. The event received…
Elizabeth Mullan, a student at the Australian National University, speaks about Engaging Women in the Republic at a meeting of ACT ARM. Elizabeth examined this topic during an internship with the ARM. She interviewed active women republicans and academics including women from WfaAR.
ACT Chief Minister responds to query from WfaAR about inviting the Queen to attend the 2013 centenary of Canberra celebration. The ACT Government has asked the Prime Minister to invite the Queen in her role as our head of state….
The Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee releases its report on Senator Bob Brown’s (Greens Tasmania) proposal to hold a plebiscite at the next federal election. The Committee made no recommendations about the plebiscite (wording or timing) and came up…
