In their own words
Asked why not a direct election for a president, one answer given in the referendum campaign was: “This would mean another major election like the US Presidential race. It would turn our presidency into...
The Somme revisited
Reacting to our columns on the Somme ( “The Somme remembered” , and “The Somme: a reassessment”, both of 3 July, 2006, Mark Smale makes the following interesting comments on the international situation at...
Conversion of a republican
Simon Heffer in the London Daily Telegraph of 6 September, 2006 tells the story of the conversion of Dame Helen Mirren, who plays the Queen in the film of the same name, from virulent...
Free flags and photos of The Queen
Did you know this? Your Federal Member or Senator can provide the National Flag (and indigenous flags) , free of charge, to schools , local councils, churches and other non-profit or benevolent community organizations,...
Support for republic in free fall
According to a report by Melissa Kent in The West Australian of 8 September, 2006, republicans may have to rethink the theory that” the monarchists who spoilt their party back in 1999 will eventually...
A politician’s curious campaign-what do his constituents think?
“It’s time we pulled out of the one-sided debacle that is the Commonwealth Games,” announced one member of the republican commentariat in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 March, 2006, which we reported in...
Majestic presence in New Zealand
Writing in the New Zealand Herald on 29July 29, 2006, Carroll du Chateau described Her Excellency, Dame Silvia Cartwright sitting “…in an armchair at Government House, Epsom, cut-crystal glass at her elbow, public affairs...
Filmed fiction
"I’d be devastated if the Queen feels that I’ve betrayed her in my portrayal of her," Dame Helen Mirren told the BBC on 1 September,2006 . Made a Dame in 2003, she was speaking...
The governor-General and the media…continued
Ideology in the media takes second place to the natural dislike one newspaper will usually display for one from a rival stable, it seems. How else can we explain the defence of the Governor-...
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull led the referendum republican campaign, and was elected to Parliament in 2004. He is nowin the Federal ministry. He has indicated that far from being buried for the foreseeable future, the republic is...
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