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Wikileaks and fatuous claptrap

Wikileaks and fatuous claptrap

Share by Barry Everingham If David Flint is really serious about maintaining our outdated links with the British/German monarchy he should stop his rambling fatuous last century claptrap. Take today’s nonsense about WikiLeaks on his and...

 

FIFA boss defends Qatar World Cup decision

FIFA boss defends Qatar World Cup decision

ShareFIFA boss Step Latter has strongly defended his organisation in the wake of the surprise awarding of the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Qatar. Step Latter Relaxing at the FIFA awarding committee post award function on the deck of his...

 

Why a republic – in 300 words

Why a republic – in 300 words

Shareby Michael Keating AO, chair of the Australian Republican Movement An Australian Republic is about Australia’s future. It’s about our identity and our place in the world in the twenty-first century. It’s about having constitutional...

 

The Tunnel

The Tunnel

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Neither bewildered nor annoyed

Neither bewildered nor annoyed

ShareHarold Lubansky Distinguished businessman Harold Lubansky responds to Tony Abbott’s Neville Bonner lecture, saying that, as a republican, he is neither bewildered nor annoyed. If I could comment to Tony Abbott, I’d say that “in...

 

The peoples’ movements of Australia

The peoples’ movements of Australia

ShareOn Thursday, 18 November 2010, Professor A.J. Brown stated at the Queensland Australian Republican Movement AGM held in the old Queensland Legislative Council chamber that “the ARM is the only group in modern Australia to be carrying...

 

Baffled

Baffled

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The Queen’s Middle-East trade mission

The Queen’s Middle-East trade mission

Shareby Barry Everingham The Queen of Australia has been on trade mission to some of the Gulf States where in deference to her Arab hosts her hands arms shoulders neck and ankles were covered. As usual the trip is billed as a state visit,...

 

The Eureka Stockade and the Australian Republic

The Eureka Stockade and the Australian Republic

ShareDr Anne Beggs Sunter This was an address given to a meeting of the Australian Republican Movement, Bakery Hill, 1 December 2007, as part of the Eureka 153 celebrations, by Dr. Anne Beggs Sunter of the University of Ballarat.   The...

 

Our flawed Australian democracy

Our flawed Australian democracy

ShareDavid Donovan Australian politics is controlled by the major political parties for their own purposes, diminishing proper representative democracy. David Donovan outlines the Australian political landscape. “As we contemplate the health...

 
 
 
 

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