Richard McGregor writing in The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the yawning gender gap over the republic comes as no surprise to political professionals. Women see it bringing no practical benefits to their families and households and give it low priority. The…
Professor Marilyn Lake believes that many women are against the republic because they see the Queen as a maternal figure and that the gender of the monarch is almost certainly working against the republic. She also said that the presidential…
The polls show a swing in the direction of YES and that the vote is likely to be very close on Saturday.
1 to 6 November: Keep up with the republic news this week at ABC on-line: www.abc.net.au/news for the headlines as they happen and on its referendum ’99 site at: www.abc.net.au/news/referendum99/default.htm
At 17, Rachel Massey will be too young by six days to vote on 6 November. Read her views about the republic and what she is doing to advocate for YES at Women Say.
Maria Crowley, described as a mother of seven in The Canberra Times, has been participating in a survey of three swinging voters over the last few weeks on the local ABC radio station. Katharyn Heagney reports that Maria was originally leaning…
Maria Crowley, described as a mother of seven in The Canberra Times, has been participating in a survey of three swinging voters over the last few weeks on the local ABC radio station. Katharyn Heagney reports that Maria was originally leaning…
Senator Amanda Vanstone claims that Sir Robert Menzies would have been a republican if he had been born in the 1940s. Commenting on the campaign, she said that people had switched off to the republic debate because of their dislike…
In Darwin, Aged Care Minister, Bronwyn Bishop is campaigning for the NO case. In a radio interview, she says of changes to the Royal Australian Airforce, “Taking the Royal off and turning the RAAF into the AAF would cost a…
In the country of our current head of state, removing the system of hereditary peers sitting in the House of Lords is proving controversial – one was thrown out of the chamber during the debate after jumping on the the…
