Friday was the 30th anniversary of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral. Where were you back in 1981 when Prince Charles and Diana married? If you’re anywhere approaching 45 or over, you can probably recall exactly where you were and who you were with. For me it was the night of my Year 12 formal. Dresses and cakes were all the talk. However, two days before the ALP National Conference almost by accident endorsed a new policy position to establish an independent Australian republic, writes Dr Glenn Davies.1981: the republic and the wedding
Posted On Sunday, 31 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Politics, Republic Tags: 1981 royal wedding, Allan Jamieson, ALP National Conference, ALP position on the republic, ANU, Charters Towers, Glenn Davies, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Royal weddings, school formals
Friday was the 30th anniversary of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral. Where were you back in 1981 when Prince Charles and Diana married? If you’re anywhere approaching 45 or over, you can probably recall exactly where you were and who you were with. For me it was the night of my Year 12 formal. Dresses and cakes were all the talk. However, two days before the ALP National Conference almost by accident endorsed a new policy position to establish an independent Australian republic, writes Dr Glenn Davies.Tony Abbott, Peter Reith and the revival of WorkChoices
Posted On Sunday, 31 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Alan Stockdale, Barry O'Farrell, Carbon tax, Christian Kerr, Liberal party, Maritime Union, Peter Reith, Phillip Adams, Sandra Hayda, Ted Baillieu, Tony Abbott, Workchoices
Has Tony Abbott been the architect of his own downfall? By betraying Peter Reith and releasing the hellhounds of WorkChoices, he may have done just that. Sandra Hayda comments.Wedding lessons for Australian Republicans
Posted On Saturday, 30 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ARM, ARM national committee, attitudes to royalty, John Warhurst, Morgan poll, News Poll, Prince Charles, Prince William, royal wedding, The Australian, The Queen
The royal wedding offers some important lessons for Australian Republicans, says the ARM's deputy chair Professor John Warhurst.America held hostage to two-party failure: Government of, by and for corporations
Posted On Friday, 29 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Business, Democracy, Politics Tags: 2 party system, Barack Obama, business, corporate government, debt ceiling, Democracy, failures of party politics, John Boehner, Michele Swenson, US, US debt crisis, US democracy, US democrats, US Republicans
As the world edges closer to financial meltdown over a failure to raise the US debt ceiling, are we being held hostage by political parties and corporations? Michele Swenson says the "... time is a now or never to restore the promise of democracy stolen by the oligarchs."News Ltd – uncomfortable around powerful women
Posted On Friday, 29 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Media, Women Tags: Chrstine Nixon, Courier Mail, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, News Ltd attitudes towards women, Quentin Bryce, Quentin Bryce airport security, Quentin Bryce trip to Africa, The Australian
The entrenched hatred of women in the News Limited stable is getting worse; Barry Everingham wonders if they will ever stop feeling intimidated by powerful women?Why Australia – and the Liberal Party – need the NBN
Posted On Thursday, 28 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Business, Politics, Technology Tags: Armidale, Carbon tax, Coalition, David Cecil, David Donovan, decentralisation, Gold Coast Airport, hacking, Independents, innovation, jobs going to the cities, Liberal party, Malcolm Turnbull, NBN, Platform Networks, QAL, regional Australia, Rob Oakeshott, rural Australia, technology, telecommunications, Tony Abbott, Tony Windsor
Managing editor David Donovan says the NBN will transform Australia, making it more prosperous, innovative, competitive, inclusive and environmentally friendly. He believes the Liberal Party's opposition to the policy could cost them the 2013 election.Things we didn’t see coming: an imagined unimaginable future
Posted On Thursday, 28 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Literature Tags: Australian fiction, Glenn Daves, literature, Melbourne Festival, speculative fiction, Steven Amsterdam, The Age Book of the Year Award, Third National Republican Short Story Competition
Creating an Australian republic is a speculative project. To bring about change, you must first imagine the possibility of a different future. For over 200 years there have been Australians who have imagined what an Australian future might look like –and for them it was a republican future. The Third National Republican Short Story Competition challenges Australia’s fiction writers to speculate on the possible futures of the Australian republic. A great example of speculative fiction which explores themes of family and identity is Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming, writes Glenn Davies.How George W Bush hacked and stole the 2004 Presidential election
Posted On Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011 By admin. Under International, Politics Tags: 2004 US presidential election, Bob Fritakis, Bush family, Cliff Arnebeck, George W Bush, GovTech, Karl Rove, Kenneth Blackwell, King Lincoln case, man in the middle, Michael Connell, Ohio, SmarTech, Stephen Spoonamore, Tomas Rueda
New evidence suggests US Republicans hacked the 2004 Ohio vote counting system to deliver votes, and ultimately the US presidency, to George W Bush. Bob Fitrakis reports.Violence is the problem, not extremism
Posted On Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Philosophy, Politics Tags: anachism, Bob Brown, extremism, ideology, Nazism, Nick Carson, Norway bombing, right-wing shock jocks, terrorism, The Greens, violence
Labelling the events in Norway the result of extremism is missing the point, says Nick Carson, because extremism is not intrinsically bad and does not necessarily lead to violence.Hicks’ conviction a set-up to help Howard’s election chances
Posted On Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011 By admin. Under Human rights, War Tags: 2007 federal election, Australia's DPP, David Hicks, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Hick trial, Jason Leopold, John Howard, Moe Davis, political corruption, right to a fair trial, US military justice
The US conviction of Guantanamo inmate David Hicks was a political stitch-up by Dick Cheney and John Howard to aid Howard's 2007 re-election prospects. New evidence from investigative journalist Jason Leopold.
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