Wide circulation Sydney tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, features the Women for an Australian Republic website in its Republic Web Watch spot.
Ms Kerry Jones, Executive Director of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy announced that polling showed that between 40 and 50 percent of Australian voters were undecided about how they would vote in the referendum on the republic.
The official YES and NO cases were submitted to the Australian Electoral Commission for publication and will be mailed to about 12 million voters between 4 and 22 October.
Hong Kong born broadcaster Adrienne Clarkson has been announced as Canada’s new Governor-General. She is the second woman to hold the post; the first was Jeanne Sauve from 1984 to 1990. The appointment breaks a long tradition of the appointment…
Senator Amanda Vanstone is reported in The Sydney Morning Herald as organising South Australian women in the Federal Parliament from the Liberal, Labor and Democrats parties in a show of support for the YES campaign. The YES vote is currently polling poorly…
Wendy Machin, ARM Deputy Chair speaking at a Town Hall address in Ballarat, Victoria organised by The Australian newspaper challenges the monarchists to tell Australians why they are not good enough to be Head of State. “They need to tell the truth…
Signs that the republic debate is going to get intensely personal. Former senator Reg Withers, who is heading the NO campaign in WA described the republicans as “a boring, dreary lot….. They all look like bloodshot dachshunds.” This followed less…
“Of course we can become a republic without changing our flag” declared Senator Natasha Stott Despoja in Canberra. “I’m unashamed. I’d like to see a new flag. I’ve always wanted a flag that reflects our aspirations for the future, that…
Young women politicians put their case for YES at an event in Canberra organised by Young Australians for a Republic and Women for an Australian Republic. Cleverly and wittily, Tanya Plibersek, federal ALP Member for Sydney, Senator Marise Payne, Liberal…
The Canberra Times prints letter from Lindy Edwards of ACT Young Australians for a Republic. Lindy argues that “It’s better to vote YES this time”.
