The funeral services for His Highness Prince Michael Andreevich Romanoff, Prince of Russia, were held on Tuesday, 30 September at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul, in Strathfield and later at...

  Why does our republican movement insist on trying to do the impossible? This is its hopeless attempts to graft a politicians’ republic onto a crowned republic. There is after all a perfectly good...

  Postscript: Given most of the media's obsession with turning Australia into a politician's republic, I find it curious that none of the nation's leading newspapers has published the report referred to below about...

Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, appeared to have the gravitas one would expect from a person in such a high office. However, he demonstrated lamentable weakness and equivocation over the unspeakable Zimbabwean President...

  Senator Faulkner says the constitution, drafted by "our stodgy, walrus-whiskered founders” is in need of a tune-up. No it isn’t. What we need are politicians and judges who are prepared to make it...

  We are delighted to see Mr. Rudd has apparently heeded our concern that when he and other ministers appear beside the flag while  campaigning on some or other policy, the flag was being...

When Mr Turnbull was elected Leader, the Prime Minister invited him to join in making Australia some sort of republic.

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The United Kingdom republicans could be forgiven for not understanding that the politicians' republic – either model – is doomed. Incidentally, isn’t that an oxymoron – the United Kingdom republicans? But surely the  journalist and, after...