The Attorney-General confirms that women and men veterans who are receiving military pensions are eligible to be appointed as President after claims by a Queensland constitutional monarchist and retired judge that they would not be (see Section 44 of the…
Another poll published in The Australian confirmed the slump in support for the republic. Of 1153 interviews (city and country), 44 percent of women – compared with 48 percent of men – preferred a republic with a directly elected president,…
Polls show support for the YES case plunging with people switching from YES to undecided. Support for the preamble has also fallen but is still likely to be passed. Only 27 percent of women were leaning to YES for the…
In Canberra, Dr Pamela Ryan, organiser of the deliberative poll defends allegations by the NO group that participants were brainwashed and manipulated and that key NO spokespeople were dropped as panellists at the last minute. Kerry Jones of ACM said…
The deliberative poll winds up in Canberra. Among the 350 delegates, there was a huge shift favouring YES case from 53% as surveyed six weeks before the event to 73% today, while support for direct election plunged dropped dramatically. Analysts…
Anne Finnane is the Coordinator of a small group of people in the Eastwood area of Sydney who have launched the William Deane for President campaign; their website is at: www.presidentdeane.com This campaign is not endorsed by Women for an Australian Republic because…
Visit these two informative republic sites: the YES…and MORE campaign at www.yesandmore.org and The Australian Republic Referendum maintained by Louise Nordestgaard of Adelaide at http://www.users.bigpond.com/lnord . The latter has the text of the draft Preamble in top spot right on the front page. Also on…
Elva Batt, 79, an ex-servicewoman from Greenacre NSW is undecided about her republic vote. The Australian reports that she is travelling to Canberra this weekend to take part in the deliberative poll at Old Parliament House, where 350 randomly selected people will…
Women for an Australian Republic writes to The Australian to counter the views that only direct election will deliver a woman President – our view is that only the model on offer on 6 November will achieve this objective. This followed publicity given…
Margaret Ryan of Whittlesea Victoria writes to The Australian to say that she is voting YES after hearing the NO campaign song which sorted out all the issues for her.
