The Prime Minister and Dame Kiri
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, was”honoured” and “thrilled” to be made a Dame in 1982, wrote Frances Whiting in The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 25 June, 2006. Now in this column on 12 February, 2006, we referred...
Republican ratings
Readers of this column know that royal broadcasts rate very well. From the wedding of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall to the recent programmes on The Queen, we Australians have demonstrated by...
In defence of Prince Charles
Too many in the media have long had a policy of presenting Prince Charles in as unflattering a way as possible ....
More creeping republicanism
In this column on 16 June, 2006, ‘WA Minister’s disgraceful justification for creeping republicanism’, we reported that a new low has been set by another politician attempting to justify creeping republicanism, instead of doing...
Commentariat ignores new links with UK. Why?
Greg Sheridan writes in The Australian on 6 May, 2006 that the birth of AUKMIN has been the single most significant development in the Australian...
Stern, aloof and unsmiling
“Let them eat finger food, says aloof Anne.” This was the headline in The Australian on 14 June 2006 to a piece by D.D. McNicoll. Mr. McNicholl had however not reported that the Princess...
Man of the hour
The argument that our Constitution is a ‘horse and buggy’ document has been doing the rounds for years – even before republicanism became fashionable. On 11 July, 2006, The Sydney Morning Herald returned to...
Media outrage : call for law reform
In the light of the outrageous publication by an Italian magazine and other media of a photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales taken immediately after the accident in Paris on 31 August,1997, Prince William...
Visit The Queen
I am indebted to one of our readers for pointing out that we can now visit the web pages The Queen of Australia . The Palace is to be congratulated not only for this...
Listen to the Governor-General
You can hear a fascinating interview with Governor-General, who appeared on the Margaret Throsby programme on ABC Classic FM on 14 July, 2006. The programme is on the ABC site. His answer to the...
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