Third National Republican Short Story Competition Winners Announced
In 2011 Australia’s speculative fiction writers were challenged to speculate on the possible futures of the Australian republic using the theme ‘Citizen or Subject’. The 2011 Judging Panel comprised Tom Keneally, Professor John Warhurst and Professor George Williams.
ARM Chair Mike Keating talks to David Marr at Sydney Morning Herald: "It's not inevitable," says Mike Keating, the retired major-general who has been chairman of the Australian Republican Movement since 2006. "People say when the Queen dies it will happen. But it's not inevitable.
The first section of an exclusive three-part video interview.
In the first of a three-part video series Stephen Fry gives an exclusive interview on the Queen, the case for an Australian republic and why Adam Gilchrist would be the perfect President
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ARM National Commitee member David Donovan : There has been an outpouring of platitudes over our elderly monarch's visit to Australia.
Even avowed republicans have been eager to sing her praises. Clearly, there is great affection in this country for our aged, seemingly eternal, monarch.
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Opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull says it's "extraordinary" the Queen can annul any Australian law within a year of it passing parliament.
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ARM founding member Mark Day says in The Australian, speaking about last week's ARM 20th anniversary dinner:
The Age editorial June 13, 2011:
AS Prince Philip, who turned 90 last week, might have said, ''Damn fool question!'' But, in asking why today is a public holiday, The Age could risk princely censure on behalf of the Duke of Edinburgh's wife, the Queen, 85, whose actual birthday falls on April 21, yet is celebrated in Victoria and across most of Australia on the second Monday in June.
It's hardly the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen, but acclaimed Perth band the Panics' latest single, Majesty, may ruffle some regal feathers when the Queen heads to town for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October.
Released this week, the grand and distinctively melodic pop-rock song was inspired by portraits of Queen Elizabeth II that Panics frontman Jae Laffer saw in schools and halls growing up in Kalamunda.
Professor George Williams:
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that the Queen should be Australia's last monarch. However, if steps are not taken now towards a republic, this will be impossible to achieve. It will guarantee the reign of Charles III as King of Australia."
Dr Tony Moore says that an Australian Republic is about a lot more than just an Australian head of state.
