Andrew West | 11 April 2008
If there was ever an idea more irrelevant to the pressing needs of Australia - the housing crisis, global warming, income inequality, public health, the chi
by Barry Everingham | 14 April 2008
John Power | 16 April 2008
AUSTRALIAN republicans remain divided over whether our head of state should be directly or indirectly elected.
Mike Steketee | April 17, 2008
KEVIN Rudd's brand of brash diplomacy - speaking out on Tibet while in Beijing, telling Pakistan publicly to lift its game in Afghanistan before telling President Pervez Musharraf privately - extended last week to putting the
Terry Sweetman | April 25, 2008
In a way it's a pity John Howard missed out on being made a member of the Order of the Garter.
The sight of the former prime minister in mop hat and Middle-Ages drag wo
The Age : April 24, 2008
JOHN Roskam's bleak dampener on the republic (Opinion, 23/4) deserves some response. Firstly, since 1994 more Australians have supported an Australian republic than support our current constitutional monarchy. Further, if the Government got behind the republican push, this support would become overwhelming (as we witnessed recently with the large majority support for the indigenous apology).
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In reading your current newsletter I was reminded of a conversation I had with my 7 year old 2 days ago. On hearing about the Queen (I think he saw Kevin Rudd meet her on the news) he asked "Daddy, who is Australia's Queen" to which I responded "The Queen of England is also Queen of Australia" to which his response was "That's not right" our conversation continued along the history of it but I couldn't help but think that my 7 year old is correct.
Congratulations to the writer/s of the submission to the 2020 summit. I think it is by far the best, most succinct, statement of the position I have seen. A copy of this should go into every letterbox and email inbox in the country!
Republican regards,
