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Tweet On Australia Day 2013, Wayne Swan called for a renewed ‘national conversation’ about Australia becoming a republic. His clarion call was answered on the same day with the announcement of the winners of the Fourth National Republican...
Tweet Australian republicanism goes back to the earliest days of the colony, says history editor Dr Glenn Davies. Castle Hill rebellion of 1804 The question of whether or not Australia should be a republic has been debated for longer than most...
Tweet Independent Australia began in turbulent times, being launched on the fateful day Julia Gillard wrested the prime ministership from Kevin Rudd — 24/6/2011. History editor Dr Glenn Davies provides his tribute to Australia’s independent...
Tweet Queenslanders may be united when it comes to State of Origin football but up north there is growing discontent about the way Brisbane governs. Maverick federal Independent MP Bob Katter is in the news again with discussions on forming...
Tweet Perhaps Australia’s greatest ever republican was Daniel Deniehy. What follows is a short history to his brief but brilliant public life. Daniel Deniehy, towards the end of his life William Bede Dallye referred to his fellow currency...
Tweetby Australian historian Brad Webb 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...
Tweet Brad Webb says that the early push for an Australian republic stalled because Federation was the easier and more palatable option for most Australians. by Brad Webb IN A RECENT ABC documentary, Paul Keating, speaking with Paul Kelly in...
Tweet Thomas Keneally writes a passionate, thoughtful and easily readable history of Australian republicanism in the book, Our Republic, says Brad Webb. Prominent Australian writer and republican, Thomas Kenneally FOR THE PAST century and...
