By way of contrast with Australia’s first republican movement, the earlier twentieth century republican movement, from the First World War until about the sixties, was at most times not racist. However its allegiance was...

 It is not widely known that in addition to the present republican movement, there were two earlier versions in Australia. Both failed, and both had features which are most unattractive. So it is not...

  Just in case the republican commentariat gets too excited, and in the unlikely, totally unlikely, event that you are not given all of the words the Prime Minister actually used when you read...

Recently, we took the liberty of offering some advice to the slower politician who thinks that flirting with republicanism will get them across the line. (This was  in our column on 17 May, 2006.)...

  It is reassuring to know there are members of parliament who do keep their oaths. I wonder what the others do if they have to give evidence in court. Do they say, as...

The republican dinner in Orange to name Mr. Philip Adams the Republican of the Year   was declared by the organisers to be a “magnificent success”.  Indeed, it was “hailed as the most successful ever,”...

Here is some advice for the slower politician who still thinks there are votes in republicanism: “A prime minister like Paul Keating would pursue issues such as the republic or Aboriginal reconciliation despite the...

Writing in The Australian on 10 April 2006, (“Vigorous democracy does itself an injury”) Emeritus Professor Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri laments Asia’s political paralysis. He says that the abrupt resignation of Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin...