Amid ongoing controversy, the South Australian Government has decided to  retain the name, "Royal Adelaide Hospital" for a planned new major public hospital to replace the existing hospital. This is to open in 2016...

Princess Anne will represent the Queen at a national memorial service in Australia for the victims of the devastating bush fires in which at least 200 people were killed and over 1800 houses destroyed.

Students’ knowledge of Australia's system of government is lower than expected, with only one in three Year 10 students knowing what the Constitution is, reports Justine Ferrari in The Australian on 18 February,...

One of the most misunderstood constitutional changes in Australia has been  the 1967 Aboriginal referendum, introduced by the Holt Liberal-Country Party government and supported by all parties, including the Labor Party and the Democratic...

Since 1999 the republican movement has refused to say what major changes they want to make to one of the world’s most successful constitutions.  It’s a very different movement...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is to make a private donation to the fund-raising appeal for victims of the bushfires in Australia. The Queen has reigned as Australia’s Sovereign since for fifty seven years. She first...

Italy became a republic in 1946 as a result of a questionable referendum and after King Victor Emmanuel III had reluctantly abdicated in favour of his son King Umberto II, who since 1943 had...

In a poll taken in the Ku-ring-gai municipality in Sydney, a majority of 87 per cent of those who  voted have indicated that The Queen’s portrait should remain in the council chamber behind the...

The Queen has expressed shock at the bushfires that have torn through Victoria with such tragic consequences, the Herald Sun reported on 9 February.  "I was shocked and saddened to learn of the terrible toll being...