Awarding John Howard with an Order of Merit has diminished a once prestigious honour, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham.Order of Demerit
Posted On Monday, 20 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Politics Tags: Barry Everingham, George W Bush, Howard lies, Iraq War, John Howard, Order fo Merit, QE2, Stanley Martin, The Queen, Tony Blair, WBD
Awarding John Howard with an Order of Merit has diminished a once prestigious honour, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham.Why the role of our Head of State is important
Posted On Saturday, 18 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Republic Tags: American rovolution, Australia Head of State, Australian engagement with Asia, Australian republic, Head of State conference, Indigenous Australia, John Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, liberty, Lisa Singh, Our Say, Paul Keating
In a speech given to the Our Say / ARM ‘Head of State Conference’ at Deakin University on February 4, Senator Lisa Singh explained why an Australian Republic is vital to our nation’s future. Here is the text of her speech in full.The fantasies and follies of Flint
Posted On Thursday, 16 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Republic Tags: ARM, Australian flag, Barry Everingham, David Donovan, monarchist lies, Singapore, WWII
David Flint’s rantings and slurs on anyone who disagrees with him is a disgrace to the monarchist cause, says Barry Everingham.More monarchist fibs about the flag
Posted On Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Republic Tags: ACM, ARM, ARM policy, AusFlag, Australian flag, Australian identity, Australian republic, Barry Everingham, changing the Australian flag, monarchist lies
According to the ACM, when Barry Everingham writes something on this website, this is meant to be the position of the Australian Republican Movement. Managing editor David Donovan corrects the record concerning this insane proposition.Voice of America
Posted On Thursday, 09 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity Tags: American culture, American speech, Australian identity, Australian idiom, Australian language, Australian speech, Australians turning into Americans, Shaun Newman
Are Australians turning into little Americans? Shaun Newman says it sure sounds like it.Understanding Indigenous sovereignty
Posted On Thursday, 09 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Australia Day, Australian Register of the National Estate, Bob Carr, Bunjulung Wahla-Bal Custodian, Corroboree for Sovereignty, Dudley Leggett, First Fleet, genocide, I am Australian, Indigenous law, Indigenous Sovereignty, John Passant, Kakadu National Park, Lassa Oppenheim, Michael Brull, national anthem, Patrick McCauley, Pilliga State Forest, Ranger mine, Ruth Forsythe, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott
Ruth Forsythe examines the Tent Embassy’s 40 year anniversary celebration “Corroboree for Sovereignty” and the political and media understanding of the surrrounding issues — as well as asking Bunjulung Wahla-Bal Custodian, the Lore/Lawperson of the 13 tribes and 13 sacred rivers that comprise the Bunjulung Nation, what sovereignty means to Indigenous peoples. Assange case shows Australia is little more than a US colony
Posted On Saturday, 04 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, International, Media, Politics Tags: ALP, Bill Keller, Bradley Manning, freedom of speech, Gareth Peirce, Google, John Pilger, Julia Giilard, Julian Assange, New York Times, Reuters, Twitter, US, WikiLeaks, Yahoo
“The treatment handed out to Assange is well documented, though not the duplicitous and cowardly behaviour of his own government,” says John Pilger. “Australia remains a colony in all but name.”
This week's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were ...Our vaguely discriminatory colonial Constitution
Posted On Thursday, 02 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Republic Tags: Australian Constitution, Constitutional reform, David Donovan, Edmund Barton, flawed Australian Constitution, Governor General, Indigenous, role of Prime Minister, Thomas Jefferson
The Australian nation and its stability exists despite our limited, vague and racially discriminatory Constitution, says managing editor David Donovan. We must seize the opportunity to create a relevant, inspiring and inclusive statement of Australian nationhood in place of this highly flawed document.A house divided
Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Australian identity, exclusionary nationalism, Henry Pill, Indigenous, John Howard, leadership, Martin Flanagan, nationalism, racial divisions, racism
“Exclusionary nationalism is a sickness caused by the divisive and opportunistic leadership of Howard,” says Henry Pill. “It will remain strong, and racial tensions will remain high, and debates over the meaning of Australia day will rage ever longer, without leadership which rejects the ever-dangerous spoils of racial politics.”Australia Day in black and white
Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Barack Obama, Colonialism, Dispossession, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous recognition, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lynne Kosky, Mabo, Malcolm Fraser, Memphis, Mick Dodson, Night of the Iguana, reconciliation, Ron Barassi, Tess Lawrence, Treaty
"Many of our people call it invasion day," said Mr Mick Dodson, a professor of law at the Australian National University. "To many indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our world came crashing down."
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