31 October 1999
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An exit poll of referendum voters in London has revealed
a dramatic swing in favour of Australia becoming a republic.
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30 October 1999
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Republicans say Costello's remarks may do the trick. The
intervention of the federal Treasurer, Mr Peter Costello,
could be enough to get the yes vote over the line in the key
state of Victoria, the Australian Republican Movement said
yesterday.
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29 October 1999
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Business leaders have given their overwhelming backing to
a YES vote at the republic referendum on November 6.
A republic is our destiny, says Costello. Australians now
considered themselves republican, and the notion of monarchy
jarred against Australian reality, the Treasurer, Mr Peter
Costello, said last night.
Beazley sides with Costello Kim Beazley has endorsed Peter
Costello's republic campaign, calling for an Australian head
of state as an important national symbol and declaring the
Prime Minister and his monarchist ministers would have blocked
Federation.
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28 October 1999
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Former prime minister Bob Hawke last night appeared in TV
advertisements urging Australians to "be fair dinkum" and
vote yes to the republic, as republicans admitted yesterday
the monarchist campaign was "beginning to bite".
Framed by Australian flags, in a room swathed in grey suits,
federal Treasurer Peter Costello said something about the
monarchy "gnaws at its credibility".
Peter Costello has two visions of what Australia will be
like after the republic referendum.
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27 October 1999
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Plan to attack 'monarchist deceit'. Key strategists behind
the "yes" campaign were sticking to their guns yesterday despite
two newspaper polls showing an apparently catastrophic drop
in support for the republic.
'Yes' is a vote of confidence. The proposed republic keeps
the best of the present system, writes Neville Wran.
Hawke to sell republic. The YES case has turned to Bob Hawke,
the man once dubbed the "great communicator", to reignite
its campaign by convincing direct-election republicans to
vote yes on 6November.
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26 October 1999
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Referendum campaigns turn up the heat. Republicans have vowed
to launch an all-out assault on the No case from today, stepping
up advertising they say will tackle monarchist myths.
Model fears calmed by deliberative poll. Many of the concerns
of a representative sample of Australians about the republic
model proposed in the referendum were eased by the deliberative
poll.
The odd politics of illogicality. If politicians can't be
trusted, why would you vote for Howard's preamble?
Former Queensland premier Mike Ahern has joined an increasing
choir of current and former National and Liberal party leaders
urging Australians to vote Yes at the November 6 referendum.
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25 October 1999
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The weekend's deliberative poll, which found more people
were in favour of a republic having heard the issues fully
debated, showed that Australians were seeing through the monarchist's
"lies", republicans claimed yesterday.
'Yes' vote jumps after poll debate. Support for Australia
becoming a republic jumped from 53 per cent to 73 per cent
after a two-day experimental poll of 350 Australians.
As Parkes might have said, it's time. To vote "no" in the
November referendum would be to set back the republican cause
for at least a generation, writes Bob
Carr.
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23 October 1999
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Vote for president 'a threat to system'. Two retired High
Court chief justices and a former governor-general re-entered
the republic fray yesterday to defend the proposed model against
its direct-election critics.
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22 October 1999
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Republic a clear winner with students. Hundreds of Victorian
secondary school students yesterday answered YES to the referendum
question that will be put to Australians on 6 November.
Costello hits back at monarchists. The most senior republican
in the federal Government, Treasurer Peter Costello, has responded
to calls for him to take a higher profile position in the
referendum debate.
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21 October 1999
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Republican Coalition MPs, furious with their colleagues for
joining monarchist attacks on politicians, plan to denounce
the tactics of the no campaign today.
It's a Test of Queen or country. It was the perfect publicity
stunt. Yesterday, the Australian rugby league team queued
in-goal at the Caloundra Rugby League Ground and lodged their
vote in the coming referendum.
Prominent republican John Fahey today predicted a bitter
divorce in the sham marriage between monarchists and direct-election
republicans by the time of the November referendum.
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19 October 1999
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Business-suited American carpetbaggers Mr Frank Blount and
Mr Bob Joss hummed their own battle hymn of the republic yesterday
when they claimed jobs would be created and national confidence
would soar if Australians voted yes on November 6.
Direct election supporters under fire. Any attempt to prevent
political parties from backing candidates in a direct presidential
election was unconstitutional and impractical, supporters
of the proposed appointment model said yesterday.
Women will take only 'yes' for an answer. Forget about rules
being made to be broken. In the campaign for the referendum
on the republic there are no rules at all.
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18 October 1999
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Yes case attacks the `two big lies'. The republic yes case
launched its campaign yesterday with an appeal to the heart,
reassurance for the head and an attack on the "two big lies"
of the no campaign.
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16 October 1999
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'Yes' campaign targets monarchy with posters. A series of
wanted posters featuring the Queen and Prince Charles are
going up across the country as part of the "yes" campaign's
latest strategy for next month's republic referendum.
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14 October 1999
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The Queen's inability to act on behalf of her two Australian
subjects imprisoned in Belgrade this year illustrated the
"total conflict" of her obligations to Britain and Australia,
Malcolm Fraser said yesterday.
Our international sports greats will Vote Yes for Australia
on November 6.
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12 October 1999
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Governor-General Sir William Deane was the most popular choice
for Australian president, a new poll found today.
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11 October 1999
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Download the 'YES' television adverts that were launched
over the weekend. See the commercials here
on the ARM website.
One in five Victorians want the Queen's man, Sir William
Deane, to be Australia's first president.
A High-profile politician, a netball star, a children's book
author and a British-born boilermaker led the call for a republic
in Adelaide yesterday.
There's a lot of scaremongering going on in this debate,
so let's just cut straight to the point: what is being proposed
in this referendum is not a radical change.
The Opposition leader, Mr Beazley, accused the Prime Minister
yesterday of doing everything in his power to wreck the republic
referendum, because he led "the backward-looking forces".
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10 October 1999
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The YES case has put together a beautifully crafted commercial
awash with national sentiment.
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9 October 1999
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Two NSW National MPs will defy their party's allegiance to
the Queen and vote for a republic at next month's referendum.
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8 October 1999
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The independent Constitutional Centenary Foundation has rejected
a claim by a senior Howard Government minister that a republic
would "abolish our current system of government".
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7 October 1999
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Two former High Court chief justices and a former governor-general
last night united to cut through mounting criticism of the
republic model, declaring it safer constitutionally than the
present system.
The power of the people over the head of state is boosted
in the republic model on offer at next month's republic referendum,
according to three of Australia's most distinguished jurists.
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6 October 1999
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Fifty leading Australians have revealed how they will vote
in next month's referendum - and overwhelmingly supported
a republic.
Both sides of the republic referendum have a recruited a
chorus line of famous Australians to capture the hearts and
minds of voters on November 6.
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5 October 1999
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The Labor Party has committed its full organisational weight
to supporting the "yes" case in the republic referendum campaign,
the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Beazley, said yesterday.
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2 October 1999
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Kim Beazley and the Labor Party are preparing an election-style
republic campaign built on nationalism, aiming to win a yes
vote and prepare the ground for the next federal poll.
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1 October 1999
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Monarchy v Republic. An article by the Commonwealth Treasurer,
Peter Costello, published by Christopher Pyne MP, Federal
Member for Sturt and Chairman of the Government Attorney-General,
Justice and Customs Committee.
Australia should become a republic, the young political
leaders of NSW agree, and anyone who votes "no" is missing
the opportunity of a lifetime.
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