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…
The Senate Inquiry into the Republic has not yet called for public submissions. An issues paper is being developed to facilitate submissions. For further details check the website at www.aph.gov.au/senate_legal . Public hearings will take place early next year. In the meantime,…
A wide-ranging interview on the republic and how it will benefit women is given by Women for An Australian Republic’s Sarah Brasch, for broadcast on national community radio. The discussion touches on the large number of issues which have arisen…
At the Jessie Street National Women’s Library in Sydney, University of Wollongong academic, Jane Innes, argues that by most criteria Australia is already a republic and poses the question: how and when will we manage to transcend the last fragment…
Allison Henry of Sydney is appointed the National Director of the Australian Republican Movement, the first woman to hold the post. Allison’s background is in law and international relations. She has mostly recently been the Convenor of ARM in New…
