Archive for: New Zealand

The Australian media and week one of the “campaign”

The Australian media and week one of the “campaign”

Tweet The “election campaign” is off to a great start for the Coalition, writes Alan Austin, with the establishment media managing to spin every issue in their favour. Murdoch, Fairfax and the ABC lead Coalition campaign THE “ELECTION...

 

‘The Happy Land’ – The Life and Times of John Winston Coward – Part 5 – The Coming of the Iraqis, Afghans and Fins

‘The Happy Land’ – The Life and Times of John Winston Coward – Part 5 – The Coming of the Iraqis, Afghans and Fins

Tweet THE HAPPY LAND: Part 5 Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote? ‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality. This challenging work, illustrated by Gee, consists...

 

Republican lessons from the NZ electoral system referendum

Republican lessons from the NZ electoral system referendum

Tweet  Last year, New Zealand held a non-binding referendum on their electoral system. Lewis Holden, who was involved in the campaign to keep the current system, looks at what republicans can learn from the campaign. Lewis Holden out on...

 

My heart is breaking

My heart is breaking

TweetJohn Ward says it’s time we, the people, voted on whether we go to war  — not allow politicians to squander the lives and health of the Australian people. John Ward says Gillard and Abbott shouldn't just turn up to the funerals,...

 

Future Australian President Competition

Future Australian President Competition

TweetCalling all babies! The Australian Republican Movement (Queensland Branch) is running a competition for future Australian heads of state. IA history editor – and ARM Queensland branch convenor – Dr Glenn Davies reports. In New Zealand...

 

End automatic national selection for NSW cricket players

End automatic national selection for NSW cricket players

TweetThe days when new NSW cricket players got a bonus baggy green cap in the same paper bag as their new blue one should be a thing of the past after today’s Bellerive fiasco, says Shaun Newman. Surely Cricket Australia can no longer be...

 

Time for tardy Julia to bail out Greece

Time for tardy Julia to bail out Greece

TweetAustralian should bail out Greece, says Frank O’Shea, so they can continue to fight for the dream of paying no tax and retiring at 50. Julia Gillard has been tardy in reacting to events locally and internationally. Take Greece, for...

 

A brief stroll through royalist fantasy land

A brief stroll through royalist fantasy land

Tweet Senior correspondent Barry Everingham takes a stroll through a royal fantasy world of Australian knighthoods and a British monarch ruling over the United States. Royal fantasy land: a world of impossible wonders I haven’t wandered into...

 

Keeping an eye on Australia’s fool of the year

Keeping an eye on Australia’s fool of the year

Tweet  Wedding fever has certainly got to Australia’s fool of the year – David Flint. Barry Everingham has stopped laughing enough to explain why. David Flint and the ACM were so completely wrong about April Fools, so why would anyone believe...

 
 
 
 

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