Australian History
Why republicanism declined at federation

    Brad Webb says that the early push for an Australian republic stalled because ...  
Reconciliation and national unification

    Brad Webb   Only by a true recognition of indigenous Australian ...  
Thomas Keneally: Our Republic

  Thomas Keneally writes a passionate, thoughtful and easily readable history of ...  
QTU: Australia's first republican union

    For the past 20 years, Glenn Davies has been a Queensland state education teacher. ...  
John Curtin and Australia’s changing attitude towards the monarchy

    John Curtin played a formative part in Australia's developing nationhood and rel ...  
Wattle Day - our land's birthday

  Wattle Day is celebrated annually on the first day of spring, 1st September and is a far ...  
John Boston: royalty can't beer it

  [caption id="attachment_1250" align="alignright" width="150"] Dr Glenn A. Davies[/capti ...  
Bio of Major General Michael Keating AO

    Major General Michael Keating AO was elected to chair the Australian Republican ...  
Speculating on the republic

  There have certainly been many republican writers in Australia’s past but very few ...  
The Queen is an ineffective head of state

The Queen does not represent the people, sign into law legislation or uphold the Constitution. ...  
The Frozen Continent

[caption id="attachment_857" align="alignright" width="150"] Prof George Williams[/caption] Lab ...  
Australia’s great republican sail

    Although the Sydney Opera House, one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth ...  
Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals transported to Australia

    As Premier John Brumby signals that his government will take action in Victoria to ...  
Admiralty House on republican land

  One of the many strands of irony that lace through the republican debate in Australia ...  
Brisbane’s Republican Bridge Opens

The Ted Smout Memorial Bridge has been claimed as Brisbane’s new republican bridge.  
The spirit of National Wattle Day

September 1 is ‘National Wattle Day’ — a time when the smells of Spring are in the air as ...  
The man who is Murdoch

The damning Murdoch tapes − hardly reported by Australia's sycophantic and scared media frate ...  
Happy third birthday IA — the voice of an independent Australia

Today is Independent Australia’s third birthday. Congratulations from the team at IA to ...  
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