Polling released by Essential Media today shows Australians overwhelmingly believe members of parliament should swear allegiance to serve Australia and its people instead of pledging allegiance to the Queen.
75% of Australians said that members of the Australian Parliament should pledge allegiance to Australia and the Australian people. Only 15% said members of parliament should pledge allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II. 10% were unsure.
Read MoreParliamentarians today will pledge their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II instead of the Australian people - a requirement that demonstrates the urgent need to update our Constitution.
Our Parliamentarians’ allegiance should be unquestionably with the Australian people. Australians elect them to serve our nation’s interest and the interests of their constituents, not to serve a foreign monarch.
Read MoreDespite recent Jubilee celebrations and today's public holiday belatedly marking the Queen's Birthday across most of Australia, very few Australians will be lying back and thinking of the Queen. Research by the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) found that just 36% of Australians know Queen Elizabeth II is Australia's Head of State - falling to just 15% awareness among those aged 18-24.
Read MoreIn an historic first and a major show of support for an Australian republic, our nation now has an Assistant Minister for the Republic, Matt Thistlethwaite.
Read MoreThe ABC’s VoteCompass Survey has found that a majority of Australians (53%) disapprove of Prince Charles becoming King of Australia at the end of the Queen’s reign, with only a third saying they’ll support Charles as King.
The results show a monarchy in crisis, with support for Charles falling to just 35% of the nation. It’s simply untenable to retain a Head of State who lacks popular legitimacy and will assume the position without even facing a ballot.
Read MoreWe are delighted to release the comprehensive constitutional draft that informed our January policy release. It can be downloaded here.
More than 10,000 Australians took part in the ARM’s public consultation, which informed the ARM National Committee’s policy deliberations and the constitutional amendments.
We believe that it was important to develop a comprehensive draft of the reforms to demonstrate it was not only sound policy, but could also be achieved in practice.
Read MoreToday marks 70 years since Queen Elizabeth II became the reigning monarch of the UK and by default, Australia’s Head of State too. Yet, despite seven decades as Australia’s Head of State almost two-thirds of Australians are unaware she holds this role.
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Read MoreToday the Australian Republic Movement has unveiled its model for an Australian republic.
Read MoreThe Australian Republic Movement today welcomed the partial release of further palace letters between the Palace and Governors-General Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir Richard Casey, Sir Zelman Cowen and Sir Ninian Stephen, as reported today in The Australian.
Read MoreAs most of Australia takes a well-earned break, it’s time once again to reflect on Australia’s future under the British monarchy and the need for our independence from the Crown.
Read MoreChair of the Australian Republic Movement Peter FitzSimons AM expressed his condolences to the British Royal Family on behalf of the Movement following the passing of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Read MoreIn a year where Australians stood together, backed ourselves and led the world in management of the pandemic, it’s of little surprise that more Australians than ever feel it’s time for us to forge ahead as an independent nation with an Australian Head of State.
Read MoreA reinvigorated National Committee will lead the Australian Republic Movement following recent internal elections - placing it in an even stronger position to put Australia’s independence from the British Monarchy back on the national agenda.
Read MoreToday more than 5.1 million Queenslanders will be acknowledging the ‘Birthday of the Sovereign’ – but the Queen and Buckingham Palace appear not to be aware about it at all.
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The Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has been saddened to learn of the passing of Hon. Susan Ryan AO.
The Australian Republic Movement (ARM) stands by its assertion that Buckingham Palace was “consulted and forewarned about Governor-General John Kerr’s likely decision to dismiss the Whitlam Government, provided advice on how the Governor-General's reserve powers might be exercised, and that Sir John Kerr even war-gamed possible scenarios with the Palace and Prince Charles in which he himself might be dismissed as Governor-General” and that “without the explicit assurances of the Palace Sir John Kerr may not have acted.”
Read MoreThe Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has called out Buckingham Palace’s arrogant attempt at misleading Australians about the nature of their involvement in the dismissal of the democratically elected Whitlam government.
Read MoreI am gobsmacked by the letters.
They bring to life once more the horror of what happened. Here you have the most dramatic moment in Australian political history, going right to the very heart of our democratically elected government.
The Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has welcomed their release, saying that Australians deserved to know to what extent the British Royal Family and Buckingham Palace was involved in one of the most controversial chapters in Australian political history.
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