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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.

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. Read the article at ABC's "The Drum"

ARM founding member Mark Day says in The Australian, speaking about last week's ARM 20th anniversary dinner:

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.

Dr Tony Moore says that an Australian Republic is about a lot more than just an Australian head of state.

The ABC's plans to have the controversial Chaser team commentate a telecast of the royal wedding has been cancelled on orders from Clarence House in London. In an unprecedented step, the palace, which serves as an office for the Prince of Wales and his son, Prince William, has imposed a ban on the broadcast because of perceived sensitivities to criticism. The broadcast agreement under which the ABC takes the wedding telecast forbids its use in "any drama, comedy, satirical or similar entertainment program or content."

An April Fool's Day joke by the UK Guardian newspaper where it said that it was renouncing its republicanism has caught out leading monarchist David Flint and the monarchist group Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. In a piece titled 'Wedding Triggers Knockout Blow for republicans' on April 3, Mr Flint missed the April 1 jape entirely and, incredibly, used the Guardian editorial to attack the Republican Movement:

Daniela Elser writes "PRINCE William may have only been in the country a few days and his task in Australia and New Zealand a sombre one, but this royal visit has curiously failed to rate"

Some advocates of monarchy have jumped on the film The King's Speech as evidence that Australia needs a monarch. Monarchists often choose to argue like this when they want to personalise the constitutional debate by concentrating on a member of the Royal family with seemingly attractive features.