In advance of the Hollywood blockbuster based on his epic novel The Bible, reclusive author God meets with the host of popular US cable show Entertainment this Week, Marty Venkman.Interview with God
Posted On Sunday, 31 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Humour Tags: God, Humour, Jeffrey Wood, Satire, Spoof interviews, The Bible
In advance of the Hollywood blockbuster based on his epic novel The Bible, reclusive author God meets with the host of popular US cable show Entertainment this Week, Marty Venkman.George Williams: speech for a republic
Posted On Saturday, 30 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ALP, Australian republic, benefits of a republic, case for an Australian republic, George Williams, Polls, Professor George Williams, Referendums, speeches
The text of a speech made by Professor George Williams to the ALP Central Branch, Sydney, on 23 November 2009, where he eloquently lays out the case for an Australian republic.An Australian Republic: yes we can!
Posted On Friday, 29 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ARM, Australian republic, community activism, Direct election, Greg Barns, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kevin Rudd dumping, Polls, Republic benefits, republican activism
NSW ARM member Daniel Fleming has a plan to get the Australian Republic back on the mainstream political agenda.A perspective on past viceroys pensions
Posted On Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ACM, Australian republic, Barry Everingham, David Flint, Governor General, Governors, Governors General, Governors General costs, Thomas Flynn, viceroys
There’s a new controversy emerging surrounding the retirement entitlements of former Governors General. Barry Everingham gets this into perspective.The road to the 1999 referendum
Posted On Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 By davrosz. Under Australian history, Republic Tags: 1998 constitutional convention, 1999 referendum, David Hume, George Williams, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, Referendums, road to 1999 referendum
George Williams is a Professor and David Hume a Centre Associate at the University of New South Wales. This is an extract from their book People Power: The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia, published by UNSW Press.DFAT: Governor General is not Australia’s head of state
Posted On Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Republic Tags: David Glynne Jones, DFAT, diplomatic status of Governor General, Governor General, head of state debate, who is Australian head of state
David Glynne Jones has correspondence from DFAT showing that the Governor General is definitely not our head of state. Troublingly, it also reveals that she seems to have no formal diplomatic status at all.Republicans love referendums
Posted On Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ACM, ACM lies, ACM slurs, Australian republic, David Flint, David Lange, Jeffrey Wood, John Howard, Lewis Holden, Monarchists, New Zealand referendums, New Zealand republic, Referendums, Republicans, Tony Abbott
A member of the New Zealand Republican Movement said to me recently that we're spending too much time talking about the Royal family and claims made by our opponents. In doing so, he said, we made it appear as if the debate was being directed by the opponents of a republic. That is not the case, but there has also been similar feedback posted on Facebook that we're putting too much effort into talking about a certain leading monarchist. This criticism is probably worth taking into account, although it's also worthwhile explaining why responding is important. We do spend a lot of time discussing the half-truths put out by the opponents of change exactly because they're half-truths.
Irish convict transportation to Australia
Posted On Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Australian history, New Australians Tags: Australian convicts, Brad Webb, Captain Arthur Phillip, Caroline Chisholm, convicts, Irish in Australia, Irish transportation, John Dunmore Lang, Transportation
In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social engineering scheme that saw Australia become the first colony to build a society on the labour of convicted felons. With growing poverty and no organised police force, transportation was an integral part of the English and Irish justice systems. Between 1787 and 1852, more than 150,000 convicts were transported to eastern Australia with around 50,000 prisoners being of Irish origin.‘Commonwealth’ is a republican term
Posted On Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Australian history, Republic Tags: 1891 Constitutional Convention, Andrew Inglis Clark, Australia's name, Commonwealth of Australia, Glenn Davies, Henry Parkes, Name of an Australian republic, Samuel Griffith
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Australia remaining within the Commonwealth of Nations if it became a republic. The irony is that the term ‘Commonwealth’ has a strong republican ancestry. Essentially, the name ‘Commonwealth of Australia’ would suit an Australian republic, writes Glenn Davies.Billy Hughes and the 1916 Labor Party conscription split
Posted On Monday, 25 Oct 2010 By admin. Under Australian history, Politics Tags: 1916 Conscription debate, Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, Labor Party, Labor Party Splits, National Labour Party, referendum, Sir Jospeh Cook, William Mannix
Brad Webb writes that when reviewing the history of the Australian Labor Party, the month of November has seen monumental changes in the party’s fortunes. With the crisis of November 11, 1975 foremost in the minds of many Labor supporters, 59 years earlier on November 14 1916, the Party was subject to its first major political upheaval — a national split over the issue of conscription.
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