Lorna Denham of Cardiff Heights NSW writes to The Sydney Morning Herald: “The republicans must have paid a monachist to invent their new truly awful slogan ‘A Mate for Head of State’. Barbara McGarity of Turramurra NSW complains online ‘I…
The latest Newspoll on the Republic is published in The Australian. 43 percent of women were strongly or partly in favour of Australian becoming a Republic, 20 percent uncommitted compared with 49 percent of men, 19 percent uncommitted. When Charles…
Women for an Australian Republic strongly voiced its opposition to the ARM about the Mate for Head of State slogan but it fell on deaf ears. ARM, which considers any publicity about the republic to be good publicity, responded when…
The “Mate for Head of State” campaign is launched as an annual republic support day on the Sunday before Australia Day. The slogan, supported by the ARM who couldn’t see what was wrong with it, spoilt an otherwise good idea….
The British Parliament denies women the same rights of succession to the throne as men saying that it was not necessary because the heir and his heir are male. As Allison Henry National Director of ARM commented, this does not…
New Western Australian legislation making it optional for members of State Parliament to refer to God or the Queen in their oath of allegiance comes into effect.
Nicola Roxon’s address to the new parliamentary republic group is printed in The Australian. She says their goal is to provide a non-partisan, cross-party forum for members of parliament who support having an Australian head of state, to play an…
Emma Tom concludes in her opinion piece in The Australian that the down-to-earth farm worker Wendy Slack-Smith, who was runner-up in the Australian Princess competion (a reality TV show) to become hitched to a rich Englishman, could put her skills…
a cross-party parliamentary republic support group is launched in the national parliament in Canberra. Two of the three convenors are women: Senator Natasha Stott Despoja (Democrats SA) and Ms Nicola Roxon, ALP Member for Gellibrand in the lower house and…
a poll in a tabloid newspaper finds former Aussie, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, is preferred to Prince Charles as Australia’s next head of state.
