WfaAR provided further information to the Senate Committee about women delegates to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and on women’s participation in voluntary voting for the Convention delegates in 1997. The results were surprising – in all States and Territorities the…
The Senate Inquiry into the Republic holds its final hearing in Canberra. Women for an Australian Republic was invited to appear and was represented by National Convenor, Sarah Brasch. Sarah was only the seventh and final woman of 50 witnesses…
The next public hearing conducted by the Senate Inquiry into the Republic is held in Brisbane (the Townsville and Darwin hearings have been cancelled). Although witnesses again included representatives of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, local ARM representatives and other…
After five public hearings of the Senate Inquiry into the Republic, 36 witnesses have appeared before the committee. Only six have been women. In addition to those listed in the entry for 13/14 April, Janet Holmes a Court and Clare…
This Country, A Reconciled Republic? a new book by Mark McKenna is launched at Manning Clark House in Canberra by Gatjil Djerrkura, from Yirrkala and former Chair of ATSIC, who also wrote the foreword. Djerrkura sadly and suddenly died at 54,…
the first public hearings of the Senate Inquiry into the Republic are held at Parramatta and Melbourne. Of the 21 people invited to address the inquiry on these two days, only three are women, Allison Henry, National Director of ARM;…
730 submissions from the public received by the Senate Inquiry into the Republic. They can be viewed online at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/republic03/index.htm
Read the Women for an Australian Republic submission to the Senate Inquiry on the Republic. The submission supports a direct election model as the most likely to be successful and promotes voluntary voting and restricted public funding for selection as…
new Labor leader, Mark Latham, announces that he will put the republic back on the political agenda if Labor wins office in 2004. Two non-binding votes and a referendum are proposed in the first three-year term realising the republic by…
The NSW Women’s Forum of the Australian Republican Movement presents “Women and the Republic”, a lunch and panel discussion hosted by Lisa Forrest, author, broadcaster and Olympian. Speakers were Marise Payne (NSW Liberal Senator and National Committee member) whose theme…
