Republic
Keeping an eye on Australia's fool of the year

  Wedding fever has certainly got to Australia’s fool of the year – David Flint. Barry ...  
Republicans: let's discuss a Republic on April 29 - over a beer

  Republican Peter McGee suggests republicans forget the wedding of two foreigners on April 29 ...  
Geoffrey Dutton, Donald Horne and the revitalisation of Australian republican ideals

  On this day in 1963, the Australian intellectual Geoffrey Dutton’s article ‘British ...  
The Royal Firm's PR overdrive

  What's really happening at the royal wedding? Craig Young provides an insightful sociological ...  
Calls to restore knighthoods should be ignored

  Calls to restore imperial knighthoods and peerages in Australia should be adamantly ignored ...  
But whose head will we have on our coins?

Ross Garrad tackles one of the great unanswered questions of the Republic debate: whose head will ...  
The biggest April Fools in Australian history

Hilariously, David Flint and the ACM have shown themselves up to be perhaps the biggest April ...  
Flint vents spleen at Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone’s excellent scenario to involve the Queen in the inevitable change to our ...  
Make no mistake: this is a politicians’ monarchy

One of the greatest scams perpetrated by monarchists is the argument that the monarchy somehow ...  
Let's include the Queen in the new Australian Republic

Former Ambassador and Howard Government minister Amanda Vanstone believes we shouldn’t wait to ...  
John Warhurst: the case for an Australian Republic

This is the text of an address given earlier this month by ARM deputy chair Professor John Warh ...  
Pathway to a Republic (part 2): The powers and functions of an Australian President

The second part of the 2011 George Winterton Lecture by former High Court Chief Justice Sir Gerard ...  
Why Australia should be a Republic - a student's view

by Alex Gunther The British Monarchy doesn’t represent Australian independence, says high ...  
Pathway to a Republic (part 1): Why a Republic?

This is the first part of the 2011 Professor George Winterton Memorial Lecture by former High ...  
Why having our own head of state is important in Asia

  While doing business in Asia, Dr Robert Smith says colleagues are puzzled by how Australia's ...  
Why are monarchists silent about Prince Andrew?

Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) is strangely quiet on the shenanigans of the 4th in ...  
Michael Kirby and monarchy's

Michael Kirby says the monarchy keeps out of Australia's top job "rather unlovely characters". How ...  
The Queen's final visit to Australia

Well, well, for the 16th time in her reign of 59 years – there’s another Australian visit by ...  

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