Australian Values
The creeds which we should hold in common are to be found in the core values which all Australians have inherited, and which were instrumental in the formation and the maintenance of our Commonwealth...
Advance Australia Fair targetted by republicans
We know the republicans plan to get rid of our constitutional system and our flag. It seems that they are planning to get rid of Advance Australia Fair as well.
The republicans have just revealed...
Secrecy and creeping republicanism in NSW
We were surprised in August ( our column of 24 August 2006) by the reaction when we asked the NSW Premier’s office if we might have a copy of a speech by the NSW...
Senator Fielding on media bias
Family First Senator Steve Fielding, speaking in the Senate on 11 October, 2006 in the debate on the government’s bill to change the laws on media ownership, recalled something many in the media would...
Former Governor-General’s high road to republicanism
In her review in The Age on 15 July, 2006 of Sir Zelman Cowan’s memoirs, ‘A Public Life”, Michelle Grattan recounts how he has “ walked the high road en route to becoming a...
What can Nepal learn from Iran?
The 20th century is full of case studies in which the vacuum left by the monarchy has been filled by radical elements almost all the time resorting to dictatorship rather than democracy. This is the...
QC’s, Republican QC’s and dogs
We sent this letter to the Daily Telegraph, which was published on 6 October,2006, on the subject of Queen’s Counsel. Their abolition began when the Fahey Government in NSW, announced the reform of the...
An Empress returns
On 28 September, 2006, in scenes recalling the splendour of Imperial Russia,...
The Queen’s web site- exciting new developments
In our column of 14 July, 2006, we drew subscribers attention to the web pages of Her Majesty, The Queen of Australia. This was because one of our readers drew it to our attention....