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…
UMR Research releases an update of its November 2008 poll on the republic. 45 percent of women support; 32 percent oppose (compared with 57 percent to 28 percent of men). 46 percent of women support a referendum in the next…
Republican Gathering 5 media statement is released. Groups attending agreed to meet in future under the banner: Coalition of Australian Republicans. The next meeting will be held at the Gold Coast during 2010 convened by Real Republic Ltd (later cancelled). Download: Media…
The annual Republican Gathering (this is the fifth one since 2005) takes place in Melbourne organised by members of Women for an Australian Republic, Judith Brooks and Anne Winckel, and ARM Victoria. WfaAR representatives presented papers on a number of…
Professor David Flint, Chair of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, reveals his selective hearing and fertile imagination during WfaAR’s evidence at the Senate Inquiry (see News item immediately below). He describes our representatives on ACM’s website as “two serious ladies from an organisation I had…
