The Convict Republic

8 Nov 2010 | One of the solutions to the critical criminal overcrowding problem in British gaols in the late ...  

The land belongs to you

4 Nov 2010 | Ros Winterton says Australia can banish the apathy stifling progress on an Australian Republic. ...  

Remembrance and the Republic

1 Nov 2010 | It is often said that our maturity is determined by life experience.  Life’s more bitter ...  

Paul Keating, the Arts and Australian identity

1 Nov 2010 | This is an abridged version of the Stephen Murray-Smith Lecture given by Dr Anne Summers, AO in ...  

The road to the 1999 referendum

28 Oct 2010 | George Williams is a Professor and David Hume a Centre Associate at the University of New South ...  

Irish convict transportation to Australia

26 Oct 2010 | by Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social ...  

‘Commonwealth’ is a republican term

26 Oct 2010 | There has been quite some discussion recently about whether Australia would remain within the ...  

Billy Hughes and the 1916 Labor Party conscription split

25 Oct 2010 | Brad Webb writes that when reviewing the history of the Australian Labor Party, the month of ...  

John Howard: Lazarus with a vengeance

23 Oct 2010 | John Howard’s autobiography – Lazarus Rising – is a self serving account of the years he and ...  

Australia, land of democracy and equality

15 Oct 2010 | In the tradition of de Tocqueville, Benjamin Jones considers the Australian experiment. He says ...  

Dame Joan Sutherland and Aussie Jock

14 Oct 2010 | by Roy McKeen Australians mourn the passing of one of this country's superlative talents, 'La ...  

Mature Australia ready for full independence and democracy

1 Oct 2010 | Australia is peaceful, harmonious and mature, says David McKenna, and has reached the point ...  

Where is Australia's Treaty of Waitangi?

30 Sep 2010 | Australia has never had an equivalent of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi ...  

Irish republicanism in Australia

20 Sep 2010 | David McKenna Ireland has a long history of republican struggle. David McKenna explores the ...