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Why Australia should be a republic: the core reasons

Posted On Monday, 31 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: Australian character, Australian head of state, Australian identity, Australian republic, David Donovan, Democracy, egalitarianism, Equality, Jeffrey Wood, Reasons for a republic

There are many good reasons why Australia should become a republic, but the core ones are obvious and important. David Donovan sets them out.

Let everyone talk about Australia on Australia Day

Posted On Friday, 28 Jan 2011 By admin. Under New Australians, Republic Tags: ACM, Australia Day, David Flint, Immigrants, Monarchists, Neil Brown, The King's Speech, Thomas Flynn, Young Liberals

Why should anyone have a problem with people from overseas, who have spent a lot of time in Australia, commenting on Australian matters? Barry Everingham comments.

Australian of the Year: outstanding choice and a republican

Posted On Thursday, 27 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Australian identity, Business, Republic Tags: Alan Jones, Australia Day council, Australia national anthem, Australian of the Year, Australian republic, Australiuan flag, Banking industry, Banking practices, Charities, Community work, David Donovan, Dick Smith, Gary Johns, Jessica Watson, Larissa Behrendt, Macquarie Bank, Michael Parkinson, Simon McKeon, Wall Street bailouts

The new Australian of the Year has been named and he’s a philanthropic republican businessman. David Donovan looks at who he is and why he was selected.

Australia deserves an outstanding Australian head of state

Posted On Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: Arthur Boyd, Australia Day, Australian head of state, Australian of the Year, Cathy Freeman, Dame Joan Sutherland, Elizabeth Borello, Fiona Stanley, Fred Hollows, General Peter Cosgrove, Head of state, Patrick McGorry

This Australia Day the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) wants Australians to reflect on who they think deserves to be our head of state. Western Australian ARM member Elizabeth Borello comments.

Michael Parkinson says what (almost) everyone thinks

Posted On Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Literature, Republic Tags: Australia Day, Australia Day council, Barry Everingham, Charles Williams, David Flint, Harold Macmillian, Head of state, Michael Parkinson, Powerlessness of monarchy, Prince William, The Queen

Well, goodness gracious me—our friends the Monarchists are up in arms because the Australia Day Council of NSW had the temerity to invite a foreigner, Sir Michael Parkinson, to deliver it’s keynote address for our National Day.

The monarchy: just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s good

Posted On Tuesday, 25 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: Amritsar Massacre, British concentration camps, British republic, feudalism, historical defence of the monarchy, King Henry II, Liam Finn, monarchist myth, monarchist myths, Monarchy, Oliver Cromwell, Robert Mugabe, Sacking the Monarch – Why Britain must become a republic, serfs, Third Reich, wars of monarchy

British republican Liam Finn looks at the monarchy and refutes the myth that it has protected its subjects for ten centuries or more. As Finn says, just "...because something has been around for a long time does not mean that it is right".

Let’s find a better day to celebrate Australia Day

Posted On Monday, 24 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Australia Day, Australian independence, Botany Bay, convicts, Curtin and Churchill, David Donovan better date for Australia Day, Invasion Day, John Curtin, prison hulks, Winston Churchill

Why can't we have Australia Day on a day all Australians can get celebrate. David Donovan suggests February 23 might be a more appropriate day for the nation.

ARM policy lets Australians decide the republic they want

Posted On Friday, 21 Jan 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: Abolishing the states, ARM, ARM policy, ARM policy on Australian flag, Australian flag, Bourbon Dynasty, David Donovan, Federation, Graham Cooke, Lewis Holden, minimalist republic, monarchist lies, Monarchists, On Line Opinion, Presidential republic, Republic Lite

Lewis Holden responds to a recent article criticising the Australian Republican Movement, strongly defending ARM policy of letting Australians decide the sort of republic they want rather than having one imposed upon them.