2006-The year in review
The events of this year, 2006, demonstrate that republicanism remains a serious threat to our heritage – our constitutional system, our flag, our Royal and our National Anthem. We saw this in the failed...
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Royal New Year
All of us at the ACM national office wish you, and those dear to you, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Royal New Year. We are now in our new office on...
Republicans in love
It was such a touching scene. As he breathlessly recounts in his column in The Weekend Australian on 16-17 December, 2006, Philip Adams was beside himself with excitement when Paul Keating actually came to...
“The Great War ” by Les Carlyon
“Ninety years on,” writes Patrick Walters in the second issue of The Australian Literary Review of 1 November, 2006 “we still barely comprehend the immense tragedy that left 46,000 Australian dead scattered across a...
Prince Philip praised
It is rare for The Queen to express publicly the immense admiration she holds for the man who has been at her side throughout her long reign. One of our observant readers drew our...
The Chilean constitutional crisis revisited
Media reports on the demise of General Augusto Pinochet invariably recalled his coup d'état on 11 September 1973 against the government of Chilean President Salvador Allende. His military dictatorship lasted until 1990. Chilean and...
A white republic
We received an email from a student doing research on 'Why didn't Australia become a republic in 1901'. The student asked for assistance “in understanding Australia's resistance to forming a republic in 1901”. We...
Is this really the republic they want?
The official position of the republican movement in Australia is that it wants a republic, but has not the foggiest idea of what sort of republic. As David Koch suggested on Channel 7 when...
The republican plan to change the flag
The republicans are extraordinary. Without a mandate they want to remove all the symbols of the Australian Crown - an institution they see as...
Marie-Antoinette – Justice at Last?
The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was most terribly wronged. Imprisoned, her trial a parody, she was sentenced to death by cruel and obsessed revolutionaries who...
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