Marilyn Lake from Latrobe University and Judith Brett speak in Melbourne on “Symbolism and the Republic” at a meeting of the Melbourne Republic Group
for International Women’s Day, Brisbane journalist and media adviser to the Australian Democrats, Vivienne Wynter, presents a view on why women didn’t vote for the republic for the Brisbane Institute (a think tank similar to the Sydney Institute). Read her…
ARM’s press release about its new Women’s Republic Network and national women’s organisations which have pledged support together with comments from prominent women supporters. Click here and also for supporting press release from the National Women’s Media Centre – the latter was picked up…
Associate Professor Gwyn Singleton from the University of Canberra addressed ACT ARM and talked of her observations speaking with women’s groups during the referendum campaign. She found no great differences between the views of women and men on the republic…
the Australian Republican Movement launches its Women’s Republic Network. To join, you need to be a member of ARM. Read details here or to join ARM, www.republic.org.au Women for an Australian Republic commends this initiative but notes that it forms part of a substantial…
Susan Ryan, Deputy Chair of the Australian Republican Movement writes about Women and the Republic in The Age (Melbourne). Click here.
Barry Jones writes in the journal D!ssent about the ALP’s polling on voter intentions just before the referendum. Gender issues figure prominently. Click here for full text.
Women for An Australian Republic held a bell-ringing ceremony at its headquarters in Canberra for the Centenary of Federation. The event commemorated both the centenary and the failed 1999 referendum on the republic. National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, made a short…
The Democrats issue Youth Poll 2000 (an online questionnaire) covering about 1000 respondents aged between 15 and 20. It found that most young people want a directly elected head of state.
The Reserve Bank dumps the Queen from the special $5 note for the Centenary of Federation featuring “mother of federation” Catherine Helen Spence of South Australia. Catherine Helen Spence was a great supporter of the federation of the Australian States,…
