Julie Bishop, Federal Liberal Member for Curtin WA, spoke at a seminar in Fremantle and said that the public education campaign run for the 1999 referendum was not inadequate nor politically motivated. She commented that the single most important reason…
Women have been very successful in being elected to the ARM’s new National Council and to Branch Councils, each of 11 members, in the States:National Council: Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Susan Ryan (seven women stood out of 33 candidates for…
Professor Cheryl Saunders, who chaired the gathering, commented on the Youth Constitutional Forum held in Canberra which supported an Australian Head of State. She said, “in terms of the head of state, (the young people) were concerned that the symbol…
Robert Hughes, expatriate art critic and commentator has upset the monarchists with his opinion on the downing of the republic proposal as taking place in a moment of “folly, weakness and irresoluteness”. His views appear in an official souvenir program…
The move to replace the ARM with a democratically elected body has swung into high gear with calls to change its image. Liberal MP Christine Gallus (Hindmarsh SA), who was on the YES Committee last year said that Mr Malcolm…
The ARM is holding a membership drive. Women for an Australian Republic urges women supporting the republic to join the ARM which promises a new name, a new constitution, no preferred model and more involvement by members in policy making…
Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland, has a go at a republican scenario while in London, commemorating the passing of the Australian Constitution bill by the UK Parliament in 1900. Beattie’s proposal is to experiment with republic options while remaining a…
Catherine Moore (Greens, Bill of Rights, Indigenous People’s delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention) of Charley’s Forest NSW writes to The Canberra Times saying that the republic needs plenty of work. She says that “if we are to move to a republic,…
The republic got an airing at the ALP national conference. NSW Premier, Bob Carr, urged a less radical model than that put last year implying that direct election would be more strongly and deeply opposed and had not the remotest…
Ahead of the Queen’s birthday holiday, Anne Witheford issued a press release as Convenor of the newly reconstituted Australian Republican Movement in the ACT. She said that community support for the republic remained very strong. Ms Witheford referred to a…
