Those who call themselves republicans will really have to do better. This is particularly true of those who ostentatiously parade their republican virtue by describing themselves as ‘passionate’ republicans or ‘lifelong republicans’. The point...
By playing domestic politics, Australian PM Kevin Rudd has been left totally isolated in London. Of the three Commonwealth PM’s at the G20, Kevin Rudd is the only republican. The other two, British PM...
Until recently, I did not think that I would ever see the Falklands. But this I have just done, although briefly. Passing Government House I was intrigued to see the Royal Standard flying. The...
“Predictably , critics have struck back at the comments about our head of state by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy convener David Flint concerning Quentin Bryce's trip to Africa,” reports DD McNicoll in ‘Flint's right...
The expatriate Queen’s Counsel Geoffrey Robertson sets out a legislative Bill of Rights he proposes for Australia in the March 2009 issue of The Australian Literary Review. This is not the first time Mr...
“I will not make a 72 year old drunk an ambassador,” Foreign Minister Willessee told Prime Minister Whitlam in 1973, as he tried to engineer an additional senate vacancy and thus control the senate...
Prince William has spoken of the "emptiness" he feels each Mother's Day. This was in a speech on his appointment as patron of the Child Bereavement Charity, according to a report by Jon Swaine...
More evidence is constantly emerging which confirms that the Governor-General of Australia is Head of State, the latest being the government’s confirmation that the vice regal tour of Africa is as Australian Head of...
Corroborating the growing body of evidence that the Governor-General is head of state is a recently noticed piece of evidence from an unusual source, an All Parties conference in India in 1928. The conference...
The increasing isolated republican movement, having criticised its former leader and benefactor Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, has now launched an extraordinary attack on both the Governor-General and the Rudd government. The movement’s spokesperson, professor...
