“Professor David Flint, national convener of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, argues that it's the republicans who are raising the...

I was asked by a television current affairs programme recently why the next Governor-General would be paid more than the Prime Minister. I replied: “Because she is more important.”  I demonstrated this in a...

As the Governor-General’s term comes to a close, the miserable and relentless campaign against him continues.

The defeat of the Irish referendum by 53.4% to 46.6% on the so called Treaty of Lisbon is a disappointment for those who wish to centralise...

The Governor-General’s observations on the constitutional system (reported here in “Our constitutional guarantor,” 14 June 2008) were of course to be misinterpreted by some republicans. Are they  inventive or are they  just careless?  This...

  The UN Human Rights Council is in danger of going the way of its predecessor. It was set up in 2006 to replace the UN Human Rights Commission which was by then entirely...

The people of Tuvalu have voted in favour of maintaining a constitutional monarchy under Queen Elizabeth II.  According to a broadcast on Radio Australia on 17 June,2007 , the referendum, held  at the end...

[The Founding Fathers of Australia were well aware of the fact that starting out as  a republican, Napoleon Bonaparte skilfully used seven constitutional plebiscites – just questions without details – to take and to...