On  27 March, 2006, the Hon. Bronwyn Bishop  introduced into the House of Representatives  a private members bill, the Protection of the Australian National Flag (Desecration of the Flag) Bill, 2006. The bill would make...

 The republican movement, damned as “near comatose”  by the well known Fairfax and ABC commentator, David Marr, now openly admits that republicans are divided...

The London Daily Telegraph published this letter prominently on 17 March, 2006: Sir,  An Australian republic is not only not inevitable, but, absent some calamity, it will never come to pass.The Crown, totally separated now...

On Wednesday, we referred in this column to Tony Abbott’s piece on the  journalists’ curious obsession with republicanism.  Several readers have sent us an example of this . When The Queen addressed a dinner...

Pro Hart, the nation’s most loved artist, will receive a state funeral in Broken Hill on Tuesday, 4 April, after succumbing to motor neurone disease on 28 March, 2006. It was clear that although rejected...

There are three centres where Australian republicans congregate. There is the dwindling membership of the republican movement, totally abandoned now by the rich, the celebrity and the powerful, who in the nineties thought they...

“Prince Edward has done an outstanding job”, observed Alan Jones, one of  Australia’s most influential media commentators.

Prince Edward has been in Australia both for the Commonwealth Games- he is  Vice Patron of the...

There seems to be a resurgence of confidence and interest in constitutional monarchy across Europe, particularly in Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom and surprisingly, among the French  when they look with envy at the...

“We'd have been a republic years ago but for the Queen”, declared the veteran journalist Frank Devine in his column in The Australian on 24 March , 2006,  annoying not only  monarchists, but...