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With the anticipated birth of a royal heir in 2013, the the Queensland Government is going into forelock tugging hyper-drive especially Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie, says Dr Glenn Davies.
RECENTLY, Bob Ellis wrote in Independent Australia...
14 January, 2013 4:54 pm / 15 comments
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Now in its fourth year, the National Republican Short Story Competition is helping to build the emerging Australian republican fiction genre, says history editor Dr Glenn Davies.
THE National Republican Short Story Competition is open...
14 September, 2012 4:21 pm / 1 comment
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In a majestic six part series, Dr George Venturini takes an in-depth look at the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, asking whether it will produce the positive effects on reconciliation hoped for.
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21 July, 2012 6:34 pm / no comments
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An IA double-header: pieces by George Said and William Gladys, both reflecting on the true allegiances of our ruling family.
Prince Philip to Aboriginal leader William Brin during a visit to the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland,...
1 July, 2012 6:07 pm / 6 comments
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Not only does the monarchy practice religious discrimination, but every Australian is also excluded from becoming the head of state of this country. Roy McKeen comments.
In The Australian letters page today (11 June 2012), Iain Rae said...
11 June, 2012 12:46 pm / 2 comments
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How to achieve an Australian head of state, yet still be able to cling to the apron strings of an archaic European dynasty? Alan Austin thinks he may have hit on a solution.
by Alan Austin
Queen Elizabeth’s 60th jubilee celebrations...
3 June, 2012 12:01 am / 2 comments
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The ARM’s new national director, David Morris, is going head to head with the ACM today. Lewis Holden, a one-time university debater and full-time pub politics enthusiast, gives David some tips on how to win the debate.
Lewis...
23 April, 2012 9:06 am / no comments
TweetNew reports explain that when our wealthy foreign head of state hands out private gifts to Australian officials, including framed photographs of herself, she then passes on the bill to the Australian Government. Managing editor David Donovan...
24 January, 2012 10:07 am / 2 comments
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The royal family inherit positions of power and privilege in our system — yet escape any meaningful media scrutiny. We deserve to know who they are, says David Donovan.
There has been an outpouring of platitudes over our elderly monarch’s...
22 October, 2011 6:10 pm / 1 comment
TweetIf there’s one name capable of sending chills down the spine of Queen Elizabeth II, it is Wallis Simpson’s – the Duchess of Windsor – who in 1936 rocked the royal family by her love affair with the then Prince of Wales, Elizabeth’s ...
17 October, 2011 1:43 am / 2 comments