Australia In The Twenty-First Century: An Independent and Self-Determining Nation
Australia, Canada, and the Constitutional Impossibility of ‘Managed Change’
In his 'Dictionary of Political Thought', the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton suggested that the Enlightenment was characterised by, among other things, a ‘scepticism towards traditional authority in matters of religion and politics, an...
The Importance of Australia Week Celebrations
There were three processional entries. Each was preceded...
The Constitutional Framework Of The Australian Monarchy
Defend Our Freedom
Why Young People Should Vote No
“Ladies & Gentlemen, The President…” Part 1
Picture it. It's 2001 and Australia is celebrating the centenary of Federation. A vast motorcade with a mounted police escort sweeps through the city, sirens blaring. The procession stops. The door of the largest...
“Ladies & Gentlemen, The President…” Part 3
We Australians are now being told that we must be independent. This is an insult to previous generations, those who served in the Second World War for example. We are told there will be...
“Ladies & Gentlemen, The President…” Part 5
“Ladies & Gentlemen, The President…” Part 6
"You're not a republican?" I am sometimes asked. "Why not?" Some say insistently. Not just because my grandparents and my mother came in the early days of Federation from Indonesia (then the Dutch Indies)...