Creeping republicanism and the AIF
Understandably offended by the removal of the Crown from the badge of the AIF in a TV news broadcast , Mr. David Caldwell sent this letter to the one of our readers sent the...
“Memories and pain…how dare you?”
As the nation marks the fortieth anniversary of the Aboriginal referendum held on 27 May, 1976, we are publishing on this site the speech given by the late Neville Bonner to the Constitutional Convention...
It was the question
A New Zealand republican blog, Holden republic.org.nz has taken issue with this column on the questioning the 1999 referendum.
Frankly, Australian republicans who argue that the question favoured the ‘No’ case are just...
Press Council ruling : Campaign against the Governor-General
As we noted in this column on 15 January, 2007 the following letter appeared in the Sunday Telegraph of 7 January, 2007, under the headings: “G-G kept out of it,” and “Glenn Milne has...
Fortieth anniversary of the 1967 referendum
Listening to an ABC current affairs programme recently, the interviewer made the common error of saying that the referendum held on 27 May 2007 approved the grant of citizenship to the Aboriginal people. But...
Reservations about the citizenship test
ACM argued in its November 2006 submission to the government on a proposed citizenship test that it would be wrong for an Australian government...
Prince Harry, the General Staff and the media
“After the Iran hostage debacle,” wrote Toby Harnden in the American journal, National Review blog “the corner” on 17 May,2007, “ we now have another PR disaster that will leave many wondering...
The case for Sir Richard Dannatt
We criticized the Chief of the UK General Staff, General, Sir Richard Dannatt, for speaking publicly against government policy in Iraq in this column on 30 April 2007. We said this was against constitutional...
Ireland and The Commonwealth
Several countries are lining up to join the Commonwealth of Nations. As we mentioned here on 6 February,2007, these include Algeria and Rwanda, neither of which was part of the British Empire, as well...
Prince Harry and Iraq
The decision by the British military that Prince Harry is not to go to Iraq will be a great disappointment to the Prince. Coming on top of a series of what can only be...
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