Australian History
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 ...  
The Convict Republic

One of the solutions to the critical criminal overcrowding problem in British gaols in the late ...  
The land belongs to you

Ros Winterton says Australia can banish the apathy stifling progress on an Australian Republic. ...  
Remembrance and the Republic

It is often said that our maturity is determined by life experience.  Life’s more bitter ...  
Paul Keating, the Arts and Australian identity

This is an abridged version of the Stephen Murray-Smith Lecture given by Dr Anne Summers, AO in ...  
The road to the 1999 referendum

George Williams is a Professor and David Hume a Centre Associate at the University of New South ...  
Irish convict transportation to Australia

by Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social ...  
‘Commonwealth’ is a republican term

There has been quite some discussion recently about whether Australia would remain within the ...  
Billy Hughes and the 1916 Labor Party conscription split

Brad Webb writes that when reviewing the history of the Australian Labor Party, the month of ...  
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