The Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Australia starts a 15 day visit to her subjects downunder – her tenth since 1954. She will visit Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Bourke, Melbourne, Ballarat, Hobart, Launceston, Alice Springs, Perth and Canberra. She…
There are plans to replace the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) with a new umbrella organisation for republican groups including direct electionists. The draft constitution for the new organisation to be called Republic Australia is now available – contact your local…
Also in The Australian, Susan Mitchell attempts to specifically analyse what influenced the women’s vote. In her view, the ARM and the YES campaign failed to appeal to women because their pitch was permeated with male culture. Read her opinion.
Details of YES campaign polling available two months before the vote is reported in The Australian. It showed that the country was divided on the republic issue on the basis of income and education. Not until income levels reached $50 000…
Professor John Warhurst of the ANU analysed the referendum result in his weekly column in The Canberra Times and comments on the huge gender gap evident. He writes, “A majority of men may have voted for the republic. Women were…
In South Africa for a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, the Queen faced 200 demonstrators protesting against British war atrocities during the Boer War outside her hotel; the royal cavalcade is reported to have swept past although the Queen later…
In the ACT, which voted heavily for the republic, Chief Minister, Kate Carnell, said the defeat at the ballot box had not diminished her hopes that a republic would be achieved within 10 years. She now feels that only direct…
The Prime Minister is reported as resisting suggestions that the Government should create the Governor-General as “head of state” and retitle the job as “President”.
In England, our Head of State issued this statement about the republic result (click here). WfaAR notes the tendency of the British press to report the result as a resounding vote in favour of the monarchy with some amusement and was…
Among the few women journalists analysing the result, Michelle Grattan in The Sydney Morning Herald thinks that wiser heads will rule the republic debate from now on. Her view is that until the cynicism of voters – and particularly the battlers –…
