Australian History
Paul Keating's Redfern Speech: Indigenous recognition begins

As Australia plans for a referendum on Indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution in ...  
The Shearers Strike and the 1891 ‘Bread or Blood?’ editorial

Today is the 120th anniversary of F.C.B. Vosper’s ‘Bread or Blood?’ editorial in the Char ...  
The path to war: Australia, Britain and Japan

Did action and inaction by Britain and Australia lead the Japanese to become the mortal enemies of ...  
The North-Eastern Victoria Republic Movement – myth or reality?

Ned Kelly is said by some to have been gathering supporters to create a Republic of North-East ...  
Daniel Deniehy: Australian republicanism's shooting star

Perhaps Australia's greatest ever republican was Daniel Deniehy. What follows is a short history ...  
Daniel Deniehy: The Bunyip Aristocracy

This famous 1853 speech by early Australian republican Daniel Deniehy was in ...  
Australian Loyalty: Sentimental and Political

This 1887 piece by Henry Lawson, written in the Golden Jubilee year of Queen Victoria, has s ...  
The Trajectory of the Australian Republican Debate

This lecture, given to the Australian Senate by Australian Republican Movement Deputy Chair ...  
Cyclone Yasi - pray for the children

As North Queensland braces itself before being hit by Cyclone Yasi, Queenslanders hope for the ...  
The ‘royal’ money controversies of 1963 and 2011

THE design for an official commemorative coin marking Prince William and Kate Middleton's engag ...  
The tradition of republican journalism

    On Christmas Day, 1890, the republican editor F.C.B. Vosper penned a letter from the ...  
2010: a Republican year in review

Lewis Holden   Lewis Holden looks back at 2010 from an Australian and New Zealand republ ...  
The great Everingham dynasty

Barry Everingham outlines the history of his famous Australian pioneering family.  
John Warhurst - Australian Republican hero

One of the strengths of the Australian Republican Movement is the outstanding people it attracts ...  
The peoples’ movements of Australia

On Thursday, 18 November 2010, Professor A.J. Brown stated at the Queensland Australian Republican ...  
The Eureka Stockade and the Australian Republic

This was an address given to a meeting of the Australian Republican Movement, Bakery Hill, 1 ...  
The Aboriginal stockmen's struggle for equal pay

The struggle for equal rights has been a hard and tortuous one for Indigenous Australians. Until ...  
George Winterton – republican pathfinder

It was two years ago this week that that republicans all around Australia mourned the loss of ...  

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