The results of the 2026 ARM National Council Election is announced. Of the 11 candidates, only two were women and both were elected being prominent National Council members over the last couple of years. One is the 2024-2026 Co-chair, Esther…
No they aren’t even though ARM thinks they are in the aftermath of the Andrew Mountbatten arrest saga.It is even saying so publicly in radio interviews. Maybe there’s some sort of a code that WfaAR is not privy to? What…
Perhaps something is afoot after all? News is at hand about two new republic groups both focussed on the Head of State. First up is Home Rule Australia proposing a plan for voters to elect the Governor-General as the first…
It has been a lean time for Australian republicans as there has been very little to see in recent months during the heatwave conditions across the country. ARM is practically moribund and has handed current activities to its “young” members…
11 November marks the 50th anniversary of the removal of the Whitlam Government in 1975. This was picked up and publicised by republicans drawing on the extensive research of former ARM National Council member, Professor Jenny Hocking in the early…
On 24 October, voters in the Republic of Ireland go to the polls to elect their next Head of State. This time, in an orderly and by now well-established process, there were only two candidates, both women. This meant the…
It already is as in “not really”! New book by ARM Co-Chair, Esther Anatolitis, “When Australia became a Republic” looks at the evolution of Australia’s republic and its gradual infiltration into our legal system, practices, traditions and ceremonies and the…
And in a trifecta for the start of the new financial year, now the flag is even more tarnished than we thought. Recent protests, particularly by anti-authority groups, have featured various versions of the Australian flag to signal their beliefs….
Giving the Anna McPhee Oration for the Diversity Council of Australia at Federation Square in Melbourne, Sam Mostyn reviews her first year in office. She hopes people would see, “a continuation of tradition and ceremony established and exhibited by my…
Jack Anderton, a 23 year-old, one-time adviser to Reform UK and Nigel Farage, is reported as writing in a post on his personal blog that “in a future world of ‘meritocracy’, the UK could ‘regain’ colonies such as Australia, Canada…
