Professor John Warhurst, who teaches political science at the Australian National University, has a regular opinion column in The Canberra Times which he has just used -and not for the first time- to launch...
The republican movement has gone back to its pre-referendum argument that Australia is not independent.
On Australia Day, 26 January, 2006 a piece appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, by Dr. Elaine Thompson...
Republicans are to relaunch their campaign for a republic with the slogan: “A Mate for a Head of State Day” today.
“Australia is a free country, and the republicans are of course entitled to have...
Liberal republican MP’s are no doubt embarrassed that on the inauguration of a new group of Labor Liberal and Democrat republican politicians, one of the co-convenors attacked the Prime Minister, John Howard.
Senator Stott...
Mr Beazley’s volte- face on the Latham Republic was surprising, and not well received among thinking republicans.
Even Senator Stott Despoja was concerned that Mr Beazley had indicated a preference...
Until the 1999 referendum, republicans were quite open about changing our flag.
During the 1998 Constitutional Convention, they even put on an exhibition of some monstrosities...
One sign of independence is control over immigration. When the Commonwealth of Australia was established in 1901, one of the first things done was to decide who should come into the country.
...In his October 2005 Quadrant editorial, PP Mc Guinness warns that the real tension in our political system is between democracy and the established media who will do anything to discredit...
Mr. Beazley's endorsement of the Latham model, and promise of another referendum, which we reported in our last column (Kim Beazley Endorses Latham Model), does not seem to have gone down well-at...
It is strange that Mark Latham has little to say about his republicanism in his diaries.
All I could find, in an admittedly cursory perusal, is his view when Paul Keating...
