Turnbull axes Abbott's Knights and Dames

5 Nov 2015 | The first significant policy change for the Turnbull Government is to call it a knight on titles. ...  

Sorry, Scott Morrison, my family won’t be singing Advance Australia Fair

4 Nov 2015 | Scott Morrison wants all Australian schoolchildren to be forced to stand and sing Australia's ...  

Turnbull's election is a game-changer for Australian Republicans

18 Sep 2015 | Early spring time in Australia is a time of renewal, a time when wattles are in bloom and perfect ...  

National Wattle Day — a time to reflect on our republican future

1 Sep 2015 | Wattle Day is celebrated annually on the first day of spring, today, the 1st of September and ...  

Beyond federation: Who are we and where do we want to go?

29 Aug 2015 | In a recently published book, Beyond Federation, a collection of essays argue the case for aban ...  

AUS1st: (Part 4 & Final) Democratising our Constitution

15 Aug 2015 | "The challenge for Australian Republicans" — democratising our Constitution. In the last of his ...  

How sharing stories with Aboriginal communities is healing the racial divide

13 Aug 2015 | Using a project in central Australian Aboriginal communities as an example, Pamela Nathan shows ...  

AUST1st: Australian Unity and Sovereignty First (Part 1)

30 Jul 2015 | In the first of a four-part series, Ross Garrad lays out a roadmap showing how we can get from our ...  

Peter FitzSimons to spearhead renewed Republic push

27 Jul 2015 | Author, journalist and Australian rugby union international Peter FitzSimons has been appointed ...  

Can Abbott or Shorten ever re-ignite the Light on the Hill?

23 Jul 2015 | With both Abbott and Shorten hitting rock bottom in the latest poll, Australians feel short-cha ...  

Wukidi! The reconcilation of McColl and Wirrpanda

22 Jul 2015 | In 1933, a police constable was speared by an Indigenous man in the Northern Territory. In 2003 ...  

Australian Ab-Originals: Why Tony Abbott needs to take a closer look

26 Jun 2015 | DNA evidence shows that Australia's Original people have been here 400,000 years or longer making ...  

Happy fifth birthday, Independent Australia

24 Jun 2015 | Independent Australia turns five today. History editor Dr Glenn Davies looks back over the last ...  

Paul Keating’s republican vision — 20 years on

7 Jun 2015 | Today, 7 June 2015, is the 20th anniversary of former Prime Minister Paul Keating's 'The Way ...  

Sorry Day sadness and the widening gap

26 May 2015 | We are now now than seven years on from Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generation, yet Indi ...  

An Australian Republic — or Fourth in Line as Australia’s Head of State?

20 May 2015 | Earlier this month, a baby was born, instantly becoming fourth in line to be Australian head of ...  

Has the land of the "fair go" now "fair gone"?

15 May 2015 | Do we want Australia to be known for compassionate solutions to asylum seekers or held up by the ...  

The Budget, the UK election, the Murdoch media and the fragility of power

11 May 2015 | A week in Canberra watching Abbott and Hockey rearranging the figures from the Budget to try to ...