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Republican Reflections: April 2015
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. Australian Republican Movement (Qld) Members and Supporters evening. It has been a very big and very exciting start to 2015 for our Republican cause. Events over the Australia Day weekend have provided the ARM with a precious opening to make and renew our case to the Australian people. Right now, Australians are thinking and talking about our national leadership, and our national identity, in ways they haven't for a long time. ARM Queensland Members and Supporters evening. Dr Gl...
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Republican Reflections: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the arrival of their new daughter. A new baby is a joyful time in any family. In Australia, around 850 babies were born today. While the media might be preoccupied with the birth of one child in the UK, I'd like to congratulate those Australian parents and families who welcomed their new babies today. The relentless celebrity already surrounding the new princess will continue to add to the royal stamp of approval. Dr Glenn D...
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Republican Reflections: Peter FitzSimons to spearhead renewed Republic push
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Peter FitzSimons to spearhead renewed Republic push. Distinguished author, journalist and Australian rugby union international Peter FitzSimons has been appointed head of Australia's Republican Movement as it gears up for a high-profile campaign ahead of the next Federal election. Author and journalist Peter FitzSimons AO has been appointed the new chair of the Australian Republican Movement. As well as his many books. From his publisher, Random House. He is also a regular TV ...
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Republican Reflections: Queensland's last Queen's birthday holiday
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Monday, June 08, 2015. Queensland's last Queen's birthday holiday. Queensland looks like becoming a little less Queens. Land with the proposed move of the Queen’s Birthday holiday next year and. No ‘Sirs and Dames’ announced today in the honours list. Does. This demonstrate the ebbing of monarchy in Australia? Today the Queen’s Birthday is being. By a public holiday in all states and territories except WA, which celebrates it on 28 September. This will be the. Queensland continues with this date. At the ...
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Republican Reflections: Australian Republican Movement (Qld) Members and Supporters evening
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. Australian Republican Movement (Qld) Members and Supporters evening. It has been a very big and very exciting start to 2015 for our Republican cause. Events over the Australia Day weekend have provided the ARM with a precious opening to make and renew our case to the Australian people. Right now, Australians are thinking and talking about our national leadership, and our national identity, in ways they haven't for a long time. ARM Queensland Members and Supporters evening. Dr Gl...
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Republican Reflections: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Gough fought the good fight. Former Australian prime minister and hero, not only of Australia, but to all true progressives everywhere, who died this morning. It’s time" Gough told us. And because of him, because of his life and his legacy, it’s always time. Gough Whitlam offered us a vision of what Australia might be - a modern, multicultural nation, where opportunity belongs to everyone. Protection of the Great Barrier Reef from oil drilling. Vale Gough Whitlam AC. Independen...
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Republican Reflections: February 2015
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Thursday, February 26, 2015. Time to reverse the conservative Restoration. Since the election of the LNP Newman Government in 2012, there had been a steady output of ideological revisionism aimed at bolstering the concept of monarchy in Queensland. Will the Palaszczuk Labor Government reverse the conservative Restoration? ON 9 JULY 2012, I reflected. Ustralia on the first 100 days since the Newman LNP Government was elected in Queensland. At the time I wrote:. On how the high tea warriors of the LNP Newm...
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Republican Reflections: Paul Keating's republican vision - 20 years on
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Sunday, June 07, 2015. Paul Keating's republican vision - 20 years on. Today, 7 June 1995 is the 20th anniversary of former Prime Minister Paul Keating's “Australian Republic The Way Forward” speech to Federal Parliament, which laid out his vision for Australia’s republican future. Few prime ministers have provoked such strong public reactions as Paul Keating. To the National Library Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Dinner on 13 August 1993, Keating stated:. The 1975 constitutional crisis drew attention to Austr...
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Republican Reflections: July 2015
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Australian Republican Movement (Qld) 'Discussion Evening'. Thank you to those who braved the weather to attend our first "Members and Supporters Evening" for the year at the Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point on Thursday, 30 April 2015. It was certainly a very wet and stormy night. To that end, the Queensland ARM invites you to our first Discussion Evening for 2015. ARM Queensland Members and Supporters Discussion Evening. Thursday 30 July 2015, from 6pm. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
