Constitutional Lies, Damned Constitutional Lies and Plebiscites
Sydney, Australia
Transcript as released by the Office of Research and Education
A nanny republic?
We have just heard the word republic used in a debate about a matter unrelated to the Constitution.
During the referendum campaign,the ARM actually proposed that the word republic not be used in the...
NSW republican politicians to abolish Oath of Allegiance
On May 6 2004, the NSW Carr Labor Government introduced the Constitutional Amendment (Pledge of Loyalty) Bill, 2004. This Bill seeks to amend the NSW Constitution Act to remove all references to the Queen...
Our media
The June issue of Quadrant leads with an editorial on the slow suicide of newspapers. The editor, P.P.McGuinness, begins by noting that the most recent victim of the lynch-mob mentality rife in the Australian...
The Queen, the Governor-General and Us
Canberra, Australia
Transcript as released by the Office of Research and Education
London tabloid caught out publishing lie about Prince; monarchy’s stocks rise
For the first time in many years, the Queen's Birthday passed without at least one republican stunt disturbing the enjoyment of the public holiday.No one this year demanded, for example, that The Queen...
The Queen’s Birthday Celebrations
June 12, 2004
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
National Office, Sydney Australia
The Queen’s birthday holiday 2004 will be enjoyed by many thousands of Australians as a...
German president decides on political role
Australian republicans are still searching for their third republican model.
What the republican establishment is still looking for-after a decade of searching- is a model as good as the present Constitution-they have not...
Governor-general for sale
Republicans have responded to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald (PNG outrage: Governor-General for sale, Tuesday May 4th 2004) with deafening silence. The report reveals that “a political party and members of Papua...