Ex Prime Minister, Paul Keating, criticises the Rudd Government’s lack of a clear message for the Australian public. In an interview on the 7.30 Report, he identified three themes that were as important now as they were in the mid…
Judith Brooks representing Women for an Australian Republic is invited to speak at a Saturday forum for republicans put on by ARM Victoria. Judith explained her perception of the republican movement since the Constitutional Convention in 1998 and described the…
Senator Natasha Stott Despoja (Democrats South Australia) gives her valedictory speech in the Senate which she joined in 1996. Like Amanda Vanstone who left the Senate last year, Senator Stott Despoja’s unswerving support for the Republic will be sorely missed….
WfaAR ends its formal links with the Australian Republican Movement to avoid perceptions that it is a subsidiary group of that organisation. WfaAR continues to have a good relationship with ARM and individual members of ARM. We share many objectives in…
Republican Gathering 4 was held in Sydney hosted by Democracy First. Other groups attending along with WfaAR were: the Australian Republican Movement; The Copernican Republicans; Foundation for Constitutional Renewal; Patriots for the Australian Republic; Real Republic; Republic Now! and the…
Ten days after the 2020 Summit, the Top Ideas from the Governance Group were changed (the only group of ideas where changes were made). The No 1 recommendation on the republic was changed with Stage 1 to be a plebiscite (a…
The proposal for the Republic gets an rousing ovation at the 2020 Summit from the 1000 summiteers, the only idea to do so. But the recommendation of the Governance Group to introduce a republic with no time line: first by…
Margaret Rolfe writes to The Canberra Times again. This time she says in refutation of David Barnett’s article that “Royalty protects us from tyranny”, that the Governor-General does have independent political power and cites the 1975 sacking of the elected…
Quentin Bryce is announced as our first female Governor-General to take up her job in September 2008. Fantastic to have a woman (finally catching up with Canada and New Zealand) but shame that this reputed republican is beholden to our foreign…
ACT republican, Margaret Rolfe, tells another letter writer to The Canberra Times that the vote against the republic in 1999 was not an overwhelming “no”. She says it was the vote of those who were against a particular method for…
