The Kings Speech Triumphs
It was a stunning triumph for the Anglo-Australian film, The King's speech, which won four Oscars at the Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and up to one billion viewers around the...
The Royal Flag is Freedom’s Flag
Unlike the English speaking media, the French take a much closer look to the Eastern part of Libya, the Cyreneica, that is the centre of the people's uprising...
Nile Inquiry Final Report: Rescind contracts, Royal Commission
The Final Report of the NSW Legislative Council's Nile Inquiry into the Gentrader (Electricity Power Stations) Transactions was tabled on 23 February.
The report recommends the transactions be rescinded and a...
Despot who backed IRA denounced by republicans
The IRA, whose leader came to Australia to campaign for a Yes vote in the 1999 republican referendum, has turned on their old ally and arms and Semtex supplier,...
Gaddafi and the Irish Republican Army
The BBC has been re-examining the links between the Irish Republican Army – whose leader Gerry Adams came to Australia to campaign for a Yes vote in the 1999 referendum...
Royal watching: speculation, gossip, innuendo
In a review of Robert Dunn's newbook, William and Kate, Bruce Elder make some observations about royal watchers confirming what most of us...
Botany Bay: not just a penal colony
Did the British choose Botany Bay just as a place to send their surplus convicts? We have demonstrated elsewhere that the view it was a gulag is wrong, it...
Constitutional monarchy: Bahrain to Libya
Formula one star Mark Webber has raised moral concerns over whether the season-opening grand prix in Bahrain should go ahead, according to The Sydney Morning Herald (22/2). The report says that the Middle Eastern...
Queen launches Cunard Liner, Queen Elizabeth
On 11 Ocotber 2010, Her Majesty The Queen launched MS Queen Elizabeth. {youtube}4rDwcorqmtg{/youtube} As the BBC repports in this news clip, MS Queen Elizabeth is a cruise ship of the Cunard Line fleet, and...
Royal Liners Rendezvous in Sydney
On Tuesday, 22 February, 2011, the two great Royal ocean liners, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth sat at the Heads waiting to make their spectacular entry into Sydney Harbour. They processed majestically to...
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