Kerry O’Brien interviews new Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, on ABC’s 7.30 Report. Asked about the republic, Ms Bryce says she is ‘absolutely’ sure that the Australian public can make up its mind on this issue when asked. WfaAR agrees. This has…
Judith Brooks of Women for an Australian Republic and Barwon Heads Vic writes to The Australian about Malcolm Turnbull’s commitment to leadership and the republic. This is what she wrote: “By declaring that Australia will never separate from the British…
Malcolm Turnbull of 1999 republic referendum campaign fame becomes leader of the Liberal Party and of Her Majesty’s Opposition. This gladdens republican hearts and fulfils a long-desired scenario with both the PM and the Opposition leader, strong republicans. The PM…
Dr Stephen Cornell of the University of Arizona speaks in Canberra at a Reconciliation Australia lecture about advances made by native Americans in their own governance. He commented that separatism has little support in American Indian communities today. Indian nations,…
Germaine Greer writing in The UK Guardian took things a step further. She says that although Australia has now has a woman as Governor-General (well behind other Commonwealth countries that still claim the UK monarch as their head of state),…
Commenting on Quentin Bryce’s inauguration as the Governor-General on a cold day in Canberra, the Prime Minister said on Sunrise (Ch 7 morning TV) that “if a little girl from a country town in Queensland….can become Governor-General, then girls can…
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…
