New media in the Peoples’ Republic.
Just because the Prime Minister drew inspiration for the 2020 Summit from Mao Tse-tung's famous observation "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let the hundred schools of thought contend," does not mean the media...
Touché Monsieur Rudd!
Touché Monsieur Rudd! For a lifelong passionate republican, the Prime Minister Mr Rudd was curiously almost invisible in the 1999 campaign, suggested Malcolm Turnbull, the former chairman of the Australian...
Reforming the Constitution
Roundtable Discussion: ‘Reforming the Constitution’ Date: Thursday 1 May 2008 | Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Venue: Committee Room 1R4, Parliament House, Canberra The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional...
Further divisions among republicans emerge
The only speech at the Constitutional Convention which attracted a standing ovation was the one given by the late Senator Neville Bonner. His speech, “My heart is heavy today… How dare you?”...
Republican plan: expel the Victorian Governor.
Eddie McGuire, Melbourne’s media celebrity republican, has decided to have the Victorian Governor expelled from Government House Melbourne. In this, he is following former NSW premier Bob Carr, now Macquarie Bank...
Anzac Day, 2008
Australia has an extraordinary heritage. One of the world’s oldest and most successful democracies, but with a small population, the nation has played a remarkably significant role in world affairs, and above all,...
Republic: they didn’t “lose the tarts’ vote”
Kevin Rudd's ideas summit promised to be as big as Moses leading the Jewish people to the Promised Land, wrote Andrew Bolt in the...
Leading independent commentators condemn summit recommendations.
…Andrew Bolt writes…. Andrew Bolt’s blog is bookmarked across the country. He is one of the nation’s most respected independent commentators. On 21 April 2008, he posted the following under “The Republic Con.” In...
Criticism of Summit: ABC report
…ABC reports criticism of Summit governance panel.. “The head of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, Professor David Flint, says the selection of the governance panel at the 2020 Summit was a gerrymander worthy of...
Constitutionalists fight back
…Alexander Downer addresses the lunch on The Queen's Birthday… Constitutional monarchists have fired the first shot in a fightback against Kevin Rudd's claim of a consensus on the republic emerging from the 2020...
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