tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229989432024-03-05T15:57:36.123+10:00Reflections on the Australian RepublicGlenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-28328879745193113172023-11-11T23:52:00.000+10:002023-11-11T23:52:12.190+10:00Remembering the 1999 Republic Referendum<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">November is
always a time of remembering. It is when you reflect upon the year, do annual
reviews, weigh up what’s been achieved and what hasn’t, and set targets and
goals for the coming year. However, it is a time for remembering much larger
events as well</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeXZ3cuji64Y84KNApedt8hL53qsjPTPF4tehyphenhyphen7AAkxlg3jC9478LhOsejy_Td131rnPUuZlwi0Ai7flxbgT36iglEnmuolF2PCL-WoDLbbdX8dcf65dajniO7CB2A2SVhxLTBKYgfBaRb841jqxDXiZlaMLy6wAav6DdTHnR3rRnEeqmdH3bq/s1920/Remembrance_Day_Banner.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1920" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeXZ3cuji64Y84KNApedt8hL53qsjPTPF4tehyphenhyphen7AAkxlg3jC9478LhOsejy_Td131rnPUuZlwi0Ai7flxbgT36iglEnmuolF2PCL-WoDLbbdX8dcf65dajniO7CB2A2SVhxLTBKYgfBaRb841jqxDXiZlaMLy6wAav6DdTHnR3rRnEeqmdH3bq/s320/Remembrance_Day_Banner.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day" target="_blank">Remembrance
Day</a> has set the tone for November as a time to reflect and remember each
year on 11 November since 1919, the Armistice of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" target="_blank">Great War</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span class="markedcontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
First World War was in its time the most</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span class="markedcontent">destructive conflict yet experienced by humanity.</span> <span class="markedcontent">When it began in August 1914, few imagined the</span> <span class="markedcontent">course that it would take, or foresaw its terrible toll.</span>
<span class="markedcontent">From a population of just under 5 million, more</span>
<span class="markedcontent">than 400,000 Australians enlisted in the Australian</span>
<span class="markedcontent">Imperial Force – the AIF, the force that Australia
sent</span> <span class="markedcontent">to the war – and more than 330,000 served
overseas.</span> <span class="markedcontent">For most this meant Gallipoli, the
Middle East or</span> <span class="markedcontent">the war’s main theatre: the
Western Front in France</span> <span class="markedcontent">and Belgium.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span class="markedcontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">More
than 60,000 Australians lost their lives, a</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span class="markedcontent">devastating toll for a small country. Yet they were</span> <span class="markedcontent">a relative few. Around the world some 10 million</span> <span class="markedcontent">military personnel died in what was then called the</span> <span class="markedcontent">Great War.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span class="markedcontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Families
and communities everywhere were affected</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span class="markedcontent">by the enormous loss. When an armistice ended</span> <span class="markedcontent">the fighting on 11 November 1918, celebrations in</span> <span class="markedcontent">the victorious nations were tempered by grief and</span> <span class="markedcontent">sorrow.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="markedcontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Britain and the
countries of her empire, the day’s</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span class="markedcontent">anniversary became known as Armistice Day. In</span> <span class="markedcontent">1919 and in every year since at 11 am on 11 November,</span>
<span class="markedcontent">people have paused to remember the dead.</span> <span class="markedcontent">So great had been the loss of life, so devastating</span> <span class="markedcontent">had been the destruction, that people hoped,</span> <span class="markedcontent">even imagined, that the Great War would be the last</span> <span class="markedcontent">war, ‘the war to end war’. But it was not to be.</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="markedcontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two decades after the
First World War ended, the</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span class="markedcontent">world was plunged into a second global conflict.</span> <span class="markedcontent">No longer could Armistice Day remain a day only</span> <span class="markedcontent">to remember the dead of the First World War. After</span> <span class="markedcontent">the Second World War ended in 1945, 11 November</span> <span class="markedcontent">became known as Remembrance Day.</span> <span class="markedcontent">The day’s sombre associations have never changed.</span> <span class="markedcontent">When we pause at 11 am on 11 November, we reflect</span> <span class="markedcontent">on the price that Australia and countries around the</span>
<span class="markedcontent">world have paid through more than a century of war</span>
<span class="markedcontent">and conflict that followed the First World War.</span></span></p>
<p>When we pause at 11 am on 11 November each year, we reflect on the price
that Australia and countries around the world have paid through more than a
century of war and conflict that followed the First World War.</p>
<p>As famously captured in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Binyon" target="_blank">Laurence
Binyon</a>'s <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen" target="_blank">poem</a> <em>'For the Fallen'</em>:</p>
<p><em>'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;</em><i><br />
<em>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.</em><br />
<em>At the going down of the sun and in the morning</em><br />
<em>We will remember them.'</em></i></p>
<p>However, there were annual events before the establishment of Remembrance
Day that tapped into this reflective time of year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span><a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/10/31/all_saints_day,_november_1,_2017/1346206" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Feast of Saints</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is held at the beginning of November and is now widely
observed across the world to remember those recognised as today’s saints —
known or unknown, mighty or lowly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is followed on 2 November by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All Souls’ Day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, an official
holiday in the Catholic </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ecclesiastical-calendar#:~:text=a%20calendar%20based%20on%20the,seasons%20for%20fasts%20and%20festivals." target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ecclesiastical
calendar</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
Also known as</span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2022-11-02#:~:text=The%20Commemoration%20of%20All%20the,2022%20%2D%20Liturgical%20Calendar%20%7C%20Catholic%20Culture" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Commemoration of all The Faithful Departed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Day of the Dead</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, All Souls’ Day
is generally a day of remembrance when prayers are said for the souls of
those who have passed on. Around the world, All Souls’ Day often involves
visiting cemeteries where loved ones are buried and tending to their graves.
Attending a mass or church service, praying and eating particular foods are all
part of these observations.</span></p>
<p>This is followed on 5 November with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night" target="_blank">Guy
Fawkes Night</a>, which remembers the survival of <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" target="_blank">James
I</a> from <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" target="_blank">Guy Fawkes</a>’ assassination plot when he attempted to blow up
the House of Lords in 1605.</p>
<p>Many will know this English <a href="https://potw.org/archive/potw405.html" target="_blank">folk verse</a>, circa 1870:</p>
<p><em>Remember, remember!</em><i><br />
<em>The fifth of November,</em><br />
<em>The gunpowder treason and plot;</em><br />
<em>I know of no reason</em><br />
<em>Why the gunpowder treason</em><br />
<em>Should ever be forgot!</em></i></p>
<p>In an earlier Australia, we held "bonfire night", or cracker
night, to mark the anniversary of the <a href="https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/bonfire-night-a-400-year-old-political-hot-potato/?fbclid=IwAR28mgUZpRbfa-s7_D9oOrT0jioE7XD-gVsGmEh2IOShXkPZkdDLrMgmDog" target="_blank">failure </a>of the <a href="" target="_blank">Gunpowder Plot</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">November
is also Australia’s ‘republic season’. I have </span><a href="http://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/november-is-time-for-australian-republican-remembering,15743" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">written</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> before about how
November is a time of year full of republican symbolism, as well as</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/november-is-time-for-australian-republican-remembering,15743"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Australian
republic-remembering. It is a time when Australian Republic Movement has
always elected its national leaders since the foundation of the movement in
1991.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a year ago that human rights and anti-racism
activist, former Socceroo </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Foster"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Craig Foster</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
AM and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Peris"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nova
Peris</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, Aboriginal Australian athlete and former Senator, were
</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/craig-foster-succeeds-peter-fitzsimons-as-republic-movement-head,16977"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">elected</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> co-National
Chairs to lead the Australian Republic Movement after the resignation of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Peter
FitzSimons</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, one of our </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/peter-fitzsimons-to-reboot-the-republic,7988" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">foremost writers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> of Australian
history who has captured pivotal moments that have shaped our national
identity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peter FitzSimons</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> joined
a line of impressive ARM leaders. The founding chairman of ARM
(1991-1993) was author </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tom Keneally</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Following,
were: Prime Minister </span><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=885" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Malcolm
Turnbull</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(1993-2000); barrister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Barns" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greg
Barns</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(2000-2002); Professor</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/john-warhurst--australian-republican-hero,3153" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
John Warhurst</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(2002-2005); businessman and future federal politician </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_O%27Brien_(Australian_politician)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ted
O’Brien</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(2005 to 2007); Major-General</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/bio-of-major-general-michael-keating-ao,3004" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Mike Keating</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(2007 to 2012); former Premier of Western Australia </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Gallop" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Geoff Gallop</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (2012-2015), author
and journalist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peter
FitzSimons</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2015-2022),
and finally, Craig Foster and Nova Peris (2022-).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In Australia, the
November republic season includes the anniversary of the 6 November </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_republic_referendum,_1999" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1999
Australian republic referendum</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the 3 November 1997 anniversary of
the voluntary postal election for the 1998 Constitutional Convention, as well
as the anniversary of former Prime Minister </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/comrade-gough-and-the-australian-republic,7023" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gough
Whitlam</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">’s
</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/secret-palace-letters-could-illuminate-whitlam-dismissal-if-finally-released,13811" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dismissal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> on 11 November
1975 by Governor-General of the day </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Kerr</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
The Dismissal of Whitlam in 1975 arguably remains the most </span>dramatic
event<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in
Australia’s political history and began the modern republic movement. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk150630911"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recently there have been </span></a><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/volcanic-evidence-of-queens-involvement-in-the-1975-dismissal-uncovered-20171015-gz18zd.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">claims</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> the British monarch was</span></span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-royal-green-light-behind-the-dismissal-of-the-whitlam-government,10852" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> involved</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in Australi</span>a’s 1975 constitutional crisis. </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Important </span></span><a href="http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-palace-letters-professor-jenny-hocking/book/9781922310248.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk43RoLyD7wIVs51LBR1VQwwBEAQYASABEgJAjPD_BwE" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Book</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><em><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> 'The Palace
Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General and the plot to
dismiss Gough Whitlam'</span></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the
ground-breaking result of historian Professor</span></span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/jenny-hocking,951" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Jenny Hocking</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">’s fight to </span></span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/palace-letters-add-to-the-history-of-the-whitlam-dismissal,14109" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">expose</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> secret letters between the Queen and Australian
Governor-General John Kerr during the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this gripping and true court drama, Professor Jenny
Hocking describes her years-long </span></span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/high-court-ruling-on-the-palace-letters-could-bear-explosive-consequences,13945" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">legal battle</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to uncover letters between Queen
Elizabeth II and Sir John Kerr in which the two discussed the 1975
Dismissal of the </span></span><a href="http://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers/gough-whitlam" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whitlam Government</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150630911;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Hocking also provides a piercing
analysis of both the extreme efforts made to stop her and what the letters
themselves revealed. The <i>Palace Letters</i> show it is absurd how an
Australian governor-general reports to Buckingham Palace in a manner not much
different from that of a 19th-century colonial governor. Australia’s head of
state should be one of us.</span></span></p>
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# #</span></p>
<p>In early November 2015, the first significant policy change for the new
Turnbull Government was to call it a ‘knight’ on titles. The formal removal by
then-Prime Minister <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=885" target="_blank">Malcolm Turnbull</a> of one of previous Prime Minister <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=EZ5" target="_blank">Tony Abbott</a>’s most unpopular ‘<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/prince-philip-passes-away-years-after-australian-knighting-controversy,14977" target="_blank">captain’s picks</a>’, resolved a national embarrassment.
Turnbull confirmed there would be no more anachronistic Australian knights and
dames. Australia’s ‘knightmare’ was finally over. In abolishing the titles of
knight and dame from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia" target="_blank">Order
of Australia</a> awards, Turnbull helped the growth of the movement for an
Australian republic.</p>
<p>Early November also sees the anniversaries of the <a href="http://theconversation.com/booing-at-a-memorial-politeness-and-political-ritual-33995" target="_blank">2014 memorial</a> for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (1971-1975),
as well as the 12 November eulogy delivered for Professor <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/george-winterton-republican-pathfinder,3120" target="_blank">George Winterton</a>.</p>
<p>Winterton was a first-rank constitutional scholar and pioneer of the modern
republic debate. He spent most of his career at the University of New South
Wales, was a prominent republic scholar and writer, a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Advisory_Committee" target="_blank">Republic
Advisory Committee</a> in the mid-1990s and a key delegate to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Constitutional_Convention_1998" target="_blank">1998 Constitutional Convention</a> that crafted the minimalist
republic model rejected in the <em>1999 Australian republic referendum</em>.
More than anyone else, he produced the model that went to the people in
that referendum.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 6 November 1999, the then
national chairperson of the Australian Republic Movement, Malcolm Turnbull
pinned the 1999 referendum’s defeat squarely on the Prime Minister, </span><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=ZD4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Howard</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, when </span><a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CuCZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=History+will+remember+him+for+one+thing.+He+was+the+Prime+Minister+who+broke+the+nation%E2%80%99s+heart&source=bl&ots=T2_nPiavME&sig=IDAFMV6xiLSoGv6gUo08fXr5hxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBGoVChMI7cjgi_aFyQIVSexjCh2qaAuw#v=onepage&q=History%20will%20remember%20him%20for%20one%20thing.%20He%20was%20the%20Prime%20Minister%20who%20broke%20the%20nation%E2%80%99s%20heart&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he said</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“History will remember him for one
thing. He was the Prime Minister who broke the nation’s heart.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">November is </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">also a time when </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/remember-november-australias-republican-season,8368"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Royal visits
usually happen. </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p>This latest royal visit is a bookend also to the first royal visit, which
occurred over five hot months from 1867 to 1868. This was undertaken by Queen
Victoria’s second son <a href="http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxe_coburg_gotha_7.html"><span style="background: white;">Prince Alfred</span></a>, a Royal Navy captain on a
round-the-world voyage on board the <em>HMS Galatea</em>. Stops were made at
Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. He first landed at Glenelg, in South
Australia, on 31 October 1868. As the first member of the British royal family
to visit the Australian colonies, he was received with much enthusiasm. During
his stay of nearly five months, Alfred visited Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney,
Brisbane and Tasmania.</p>
<p>At a meeting on 20 January 1868 to elect three trustees from the subscribers
to the fund for the erection of the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Grammar_School" target="_blank">Grammar
School in Brisbane</a>, there was a discussion on the probability of Prince
Alfred who was about to visit the colony to lay the foundation stone.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1325574"><span style="background: white;">Brisbane Courier</span></a> on 21 January
1868 stated that</p>
<p>'... <em>as almost a necessary consequence, the school would be in some
way connected with his Royal Highness by name. As, however, the number of
institutions which either now did or promised to bear the name of Prince Alfred,
or Duke of Edinburgh, in the other colonies, had become almost beyond all
count, he would suggest that they had better confine themselves out here to
some such name as the ‘Prince’s School’, or ‘Queen’s School … [another] said he
believed according to the Grammar Schools Act they were bound to call the
school the "Brisbane Grammar School"</em>.'</p>
<p>During his visit to Brisbane, Prince Alfred laid the <a href="http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Exhibitions/royals/Pages/HistoricalEssay.aspx"><span style="background: white;">Brisbane Grammar School Foundation Stone</span></a> on
29 February 1868, however the people of Brisbane r<br />efused to yield to the
pressure around all the colonies to name all institutions after the visiting
royal. Instead of naming the school after him, the event was <a href="https://www.brisbanegrammar.com/About/GrammarHistory/PDF%20Documents/Archive%20Fact%20Sheets_low%20visiting%20royalty.pdf"><span style="background: white;">commemorated</span></a> in the present School with his
coat-of-arms included in the northern stained glass window of the Great Hall.
The fact that he wasn’t liked much helped the burghers of Brisbane maintain
their ‘republican’ stance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
November 2023 there doesn’t appear to be any Royal visits on the horizon. We
certainly seem to be being taken for granted. King Charles III appears to still
be avoiding a </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/king-charles-iii-avoids-victory-lap-of-the-commonwealth,17953"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">victory lap</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> of the
Commonwealth.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p>Australians need a head of state of their own — someone who can lead
the dignified part of their national life away from the day-to-day screaming
match of Federal Parliament and Question Time.</p>
<p>So, <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/remember-remember-australias-republican-november,10918" target="_blank">remember</a>, remember, Australia’s republican November!</p>
Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-6821345129358551862023-10-02T12:45:00.003+10:002023-10-02T12:48:23.431+10:00King Charles III avoids victory lap of the Commonwealth<p><b><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today is the first time Queenslanders
have had a public holiday to celebrate the birthday of King Charles III and yet
there has been no victory lap yet of the Commonwealth. This show the </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">growing distance between the
British monarch and the people of Australia.</span></i></b><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCMxdHtLrBtu-yTZi1amGrKSd1-6ktGwNQBp3IQYrl5iGQ6hgxg5fkJRAT0M1lMIHYyFYlTiRUhcwsRe3dAEz-Buu5mZbzcD07eqUyDCOlEEd8A9GY1yXTXmMImnlEVuBXX4-VY_szjcUMrB4jiSU2WdwtfPzc_EeoqZ2Ldq6T82a_dX-VJ1d/s811/Not%20my%20King.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCMxdHtLrBtu-yTZi1amGrKSd1-6ktGwNQBp3IQYrl5iGQ6hgxg5fkJRAT0M1lMIHYyFYlTiRUhcwsRe3dAEz-Buu5mZbzcD07eqUyDCOlEEd8A9GY1yXTXmMImnlEVuBXX4-VY_szjcUMrB4jiSU2WdwtfPzc_EeoqZ2Ldq6T82a_dX-VJ1d/s320/Not%20my%20King.JPG" width="230" /></a></div><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Queenslanders
took the day off work today; not in recognition of their hard work, but to
recognise the British Monarch who will most likely be sleeping through the
public holiday. </span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first
King’s Birthday public holiday in Queensland, which now commemorates </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">King Charles III’s</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> birthday on 19
November, is another demonstration of our denial of choice. Since his birth,
Prince Charles has known he would take over the top job. Then one morning last
year, Australians simply woke up to hear news from Britain that has changed our
country for decades to come. Australians did not choose King Charles III as our
Head of State. It is a disgraceful fact that without constitutional
change, the citizens of Australia will never be consulted on our head of state.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Australian love
their public holidays, even if the reason for the occasion is a little vague.
For goodness sake we even have a public holiday </span><a href="https://www.vrc.com.au/melbourne-cup-carnival/melbourne-cup-carnival-2023/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">in Melbourne
for a horse race</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and in Brisbane for an </span><a href="https://www.ekka.com.au/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">agricultural
show</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.
Nevertheless, the purpose of the King’s Birthday public holiday is the vaguest
of them all. The </span><a href="https://publicholidays.com.au/kings-birthday/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">King’s Birthday
public holiday</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> doesn’t
remind us of anything good about our country. At worst, it tells us Australia’s
head of state gets the job by inheritance. The lack of any public activity
around the King’s Birthday public holiday shows how the concept of monarchy is
out-of-step with contemporary Australia. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Open Sans"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">It’s time for an Australian to be our Head of State to be not only
one of us but also willing to turn up.</span><span style="color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Open Sans"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">fact, <span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">since
King Charles III became Australian Head of State </span></span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/king-charles-big-problem-australia-republic-1829782"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">he is yet to grace</span></a><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">any of the Commonwealth nations which still call him their King <span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">with his presence</span>. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">National Director and CEO Isaac
Jeffrey </span><a href="https://republic.org.au/media/whereistheking"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">said</span></a><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">:</span><span style="color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">“<i>King Charles III is King of
Australia by birthright and he has held that lofty position for over a year
now, yet our King hasn’t made the trip to visit us. In fact, he hasn’t been to
any of the Commonwealth nations which still call him their King and Head of
State. He’s visited Germany, Romania and, within the last few days, he sipped
champagne in France, but he hasn’t found time for us.</i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">Prior to becoming our King,
then Prince Charles, only visited Australia 16 times. He’s fast approaching his
75th birthday. He’s had decades to travel down under to get an idea of who we
are as a people and to truly understand who we are a nation. He’s only managed around
one visit every five years. Some of these were extended visits, such as his
days at Geelong Grammar on exchange as a schoolboy, while others like the last
visit in 2018 were for only a few days – yet we still call him King of
Australia</span></i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">.</span><span style="color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">”<i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">It beggars the question, does
the monarchy take us for granted?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">It’s time for an Australian to
be our Head of State and do the job full-time, rather than working from home at
Windsor Castle where they can’t even be bothered Zooming into the office at
least once a week. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">We are a unique multicultural
country and we need someone who understands how to embody us, to be the
guardian of our </span><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/constitution"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">Constitution</span></a><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">, to be a unifying symbol at
home and someone we are proud to see representing us abroad. They should be
elected on merit, not gifted the position by birthright. They should have the
skills and work experience to do the job. The person should be one of us,
responsible and accountable to us, and unwaveringly loyal to us and only us. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">And, they should be willing to
turn up.</span><span style="color: #1a1e2b; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In Britain, the King’s Birthday is
celebrated on the first Saturday in June. In New Zealand, it’s the first Monday
in June and in Canada</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, it’s in the middle of May. The Canadian celebration is called “</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Day" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Victoria Day</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">” because it
was created to honour Queen </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Victoria</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. However, over
the years the Canadian holiday </span><a href="http://alldownunder.com/australian-dates/holiday-queens-birthday.htm" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">has
changed</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> to
include the reigning sovereign’s birthday as well.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The idea of </span><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-two-birthdays-facts-elizabeth-8154764" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">two
birthday celebrations</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> was introduced 250 years ago. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencer,_9th_Earl_Spencer" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earl
Charles Spencer</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, brother of the late </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Princess Diana</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, stated former
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Queen Elizabeth
II</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
received a second multiday celebration now, thanks to historical tradition.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As Spencer </span><a href="http://www.today.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-trickster-charles-spencer-reveals-page-turning-truth-t97586" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">said</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">George II</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> was<i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“...born
in the depths of winter and they decided they couldn't celebrate his birthday
in the winter every year because there's all sorts of pageantry.”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So,
George decided he'd have a second birthday and the idea stuck.</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Anyone
who's been King or Queen of England since has a summer birthday, so that we
have a hope of some sunshine.”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since 1748, the
British monarch's official birthday has been marked by the parade known as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trooping_the_Colour" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Trooping the
Colour</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> —
usually held on the king or queen's actual birthday. But </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Edward VII</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, who reigned
from 1901 to 1910, was born in November. Yet he celebrated his birthday
officially in May or June because there was less chance of it being cold and
drizzly during the outdoor event.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The British
monarch’s official birthday celebrations (as opposed to the actual birth date)
began in Australia in 1912. The monarch after Edward VII – King </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_V" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">George V</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
– helpfully had a birthday on 3 June. Queen Elizabeth II’s father, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">George VI</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, whose
birthday was unhelpfully in December, reintroduced the tradition of an official
birthday by having his official birthday on the second Thursday of June.
Elizabeth II continued with this tradition. However, in 1959, after several
years on the throne, she changed it to the second Saturday in June for
convenience.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And yet it has
always seemed absurd that Australians acknowledged the birthday of former Queen
Elizabeth II at a completely different time to her actual birthday, and at
different times in different states. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/kings-birthday"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Around
Australia in 2023</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, the King’s Birthday public holiday continues the tradition
set by the Windsor line holding the official birthday in Australia on the
second Monday in June — except in WA on Monday 25 September and in Queensland
on Monday 2 October.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have our own
identity as Australians. The Royals represent Britain, but cannot represent us
or unite us as Australians. Australians believe in freedom and equal
opportunity, not that some are born to rule over others.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We come from
all walks of life, from all corners of the globe and this ancient land. Our
shared commitment to our common future is what binds us together. Standing
against this is the elevation of Charles III.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We can have
respect and affection for Britain and its celebrity royals but still
question why we do not have our own Head of State. The royals are welcome to
visit as representatives of Britain, but I look forward to when the British
people and their royal family will welcome a visit by the first Australian head
of state.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the words of Sammy J,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So to our King, we say g’day, and we praise his DNA,</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <i>his
ever loyal subjects across the sea.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We might have golden soil and a bit of wealth for toil, but us Aussies
are still girt by monarchy.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="387" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AExPYUB8X90" width="467" youtube-src-id="AExPYUB8X90"></iframe></i></div><i><br /> </i><p></p>
Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-69629259939684196882023-09-01T22:07:00.000+10:002023-09-01T22:07:09.413+10:0035 golden years celebrating National Wattle Day<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">September 1 marks 35<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Golden
Wattle as Australia’s national floral emblem, as well as the 30<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the Australian Republic Movement giving its support to National
Wattle Day celebrations throughout Australia</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxzVmgcAH4Rb4UPmxu8J9WoXKEd7rjhMYqN81ZO-nWCUZ7VP9GoTQY3G3giVMnFpHuNb30SVBeJEC4jShgXiIhDQgUGBBSGck82EOecgFIbay_5t4F8vac40PMOLSlNQzOPo99IBQ-VcDMRUot9Khh_IdqKgNT5DUVj_UyxuHLyHeyMdWyPBR/s228/Wattle%20Badge%201918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="228" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxzVmgcAH4Rb4UPmxu8J9WoXKEd7rjhMYqN81ZO-nWCUZ7VP9GoTQY3G3giVMnFpHuNb30SVBeJEC4jShgXiIhDQgUGBBSGck82EOecgFIbay_5t4F8vac40PMOLSlNQzOPo99IBQ-VcDMRUot9Khh_IdqKgNT5DUVj_UyxuHLyHeyMdWyPBR/s1600/Wattle%20Badge%201918.jpg" width="228" /></a></div>The first day of September has many names. Some welcome it
as spring’s dawn, a time to celebrate nature’s renewal. For others, it is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_Day"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National Wattle Day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> — a time when </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/our-wattle-republic,6849"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the smells of spring</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> are in the air as
well as Australia's vivid gold blossom, </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2023 we mark the 35<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
proclamation of golden wattle as Australia’s national floral emblem.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Australia, </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/australia-wins-the-acacia-wars,3624"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the wattle</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is the largest genus
of flowering plants. In Australia, you could plant two or three different
wattles for every day of the year and still have plenty left over, for
Australia has more acacia species than the year has days. These acacias are
extremely diverse and found in habitats from rainforest to arid lands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A sprig of Australia's national floral emblem, the golden
wattle – <i>Acacia pycnantha</i> – is </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/wattle-day--our-lands-birthday,3037"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">traditionally worn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on the first day of
spring. The green and gold of wattle leaves and blossoms were declared our </span><a href="http://worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/symbolic/nationalcolours.php"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">national colours</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in 1984; in
1988, the wattle was adopted as the </span><a href="http://worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/symbolic/emblems/national.php"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">official national
flower</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">;
and National Wattle Day was formally declared as an official National Day on </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/welcome-spring-and-national-wattle-day,4451"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 September 1992</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2WIM7KhD2LyfpmeFuVjKcJJCX36GuDuVry6g81IrslOW9NrmeWu_b3PnTGmjLWFvN2Cv0YugKr3xew6QX0nTeI80IJjp0Xz7_i457QDW-3j0krypsq44huA0WeHRIRo-5sEEfBayTuIJPW50DGBztw2-XlHizWBK3vcuY4FknKv9cPuSWVdH/s235/ARM%20Wattle%20logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="235" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2WIM7KhD2LyfpmeFuVjKcJJCX36GuDuVry6g81IrslOW9NrmeWu_b3PnTGmjLWFvN2Cv0YugKr3xew6QX0nTeI80IJjp0Xz7_i457QDW-3j0krypsq44huA0WeHRIRo-5sEEfBayTuIJPW50DGBztw2-XlHizWBK3vcuY4FknKv9cPuSWVdH/s1600/ARM%20Wattle%20logo.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Australians may have made a home for themselves among the
gum trees, but it is the wattle <br />tree that has found its way into Australian
republican symbolism. In 1993, the </span><a href="http://www.ouridentity.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Australian Republic Movement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> gave its support to
Wattle Day celebrations being held throughout Australia on 1 September. Wattle
captures something crucial to the success of the republic — feeling for
country. It is a unifying symbol.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wattle Day has been celebrated annually on the first day of
spring since 1910. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Over
the next few years there was a push to extend Wattle Day celebrations across
the country.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> However,
the first known use of wattle as a meaningful emblem in the Australian colonies
was in Hobart Town in 1838, when a resident suggested wearing a sprig of wattle
to celebrate the golden jubilee of the landing at Sydney Cove. In this
seemingly small gesture lay a suggestion of an independent Australia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wattle is a broad and inclusive symbol of an egalitarian,
classless, free citizenry. It grows in all parts of Australia, differing
varieties flowering throughout the year. This democracy of wattles – the fact
that they grow in all states – was the overpowering reason why the wattle and
not the waratah was chosen as the floral emblem in the early 20<sup>th</sup> Century.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wattle celebrations first arose as occasions when earlier
generations of Australians stood up<br /> and said: “<i>I am from this land.
This place is home.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmxELLQ7cTQhajqCWFR3Dj0W8KUKjbhnXaXRDoLijXN1aVzLOtzyOjSFBCofO6dRqFsbPB8iHv9RtRUcAHeWB38Z-3vRbyDkmn1K0IAXRJglud0C04FEOJLbd_mjL_bgQkVc-BDMpRsVg-4t_q5JBo2R9Qe9Fs_bIZEDHk6fDAPcJGXd8DJHi/s225/Wattle%20Day%20Badge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmxELLQ7cTQhajqCWFR3Dj0W8KUKjbhnXaXRDoLijXN1aVzLOtzyOjSFBCofO6dRqFsbPB8iHv9RtRUcAHeWB38Z-3vRbyDkmn1K0IAXRJglud0C04FEOJLbd_mjL_bgQkVc-BDMpRsVg-4t_q5JBo2R9Qe9Fs_bIZEDHk6fDAPcJGXd8DJHi/s1600/Wattle%20Day%20Badge.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is a symbol that comes directly from our land. Wattle is
Australian and represents us all. Like the Southern Cross, the appeal of wattle
is not first and foremost to the idea of nation — but to the idea of place. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wattle branches have been on Australia’s coat of arms since
1912 and golden wattle is Australia’s national floral emblem. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australian athletes
wear wattle-inspired green and gold uniforms and those honoured with an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Order of Australia </span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">receive awards with
an insignia designed around the wattle flower.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> At citizenship ceremonies, wattle is worn
to signify new beginnings.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Early
pioneers and World War I diggers were buried with a customary sprig of wattle.
During the First World War, wattle sprigs and badges were sold to raise money
for the war effort and organisations such as the Red Cross. Later, wattle was
worn to commemorate Australians who lost their lives while serving overseas.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIwrxhlU1NWDI_FPL_qGA8lqjJAFjIaiTF3EAtbFM_B9UuWIPApetPxKsNPUxk0zr0cIr3ixRGxTlVAPuzUrt2FuPjbIG0Xv7yh0TfV9h1yR_Q78Ai3pmqzGrTZbvOQTicvm1fI56QxL0_vQrLaPOEYSdFmzlBoIdj__1_zleFfD24pqnAmVd/s225/Wattle%20Badge%201916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIwrxhlU1NWDI_FPL_qGA8lqjJAFjIaiTF3EAtbFM_B9UuWIPApetPxKsNPUxk0zr0cIr3ixRGxTlVAPuzUrt2FuPjbIG0Xv7yh0TfV9h1yR_Q78Ai3pmqzGrTZbvOQTicvm1fI56QxL0_vQrLaPOEYSdFmzlBoIdj__1_zleFfD24pqnAmVd/s1600/Wattle%20Badge%201916.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>By the Second
World War wattle was no longer being widely used as a symbol of Australia and
Wattle Day all but disappeared. Calls to make wattle a national floral emblem
didn’t re-enter the national consciousness until the 1980s.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then Governor-General </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deane"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sir William Deane</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> took wattle blossoms
to Switzerland to commemorate young Australians who died there. Prime Minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Howard </span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">also wore sprigs of
wattle at ceremonies after the Bali bombings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/terry-fewtrell,34"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Terry Fewtrell</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, President of the
Wattle Day Association, said in a </span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/a-golden-opportunity-to-put-aside-australia-day-blues-20140124-31ed5.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2014 Australia Day
speech</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
that:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“...wattle has journeyed with us in
kitbags, pockets and letters to places that become synonymous with our shared
story; be they Gallipoli, Kokoda or Swiss canyons."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2017, </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/terry-fewtrell,34"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Terry Fewtrell</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, proposed in the </span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org.au/national-wattle-australia-day/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sydney Morning Herald</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> that:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">We could
link National Wattle Day, with Australia Day as joint days on which we
celebrate Australia, this land, its waters and environment, its people and our
nation. National Wattle Day would not compete with Australia Day, rather it
would complete Australia Day. It would do what Wattle has always done — unite
us.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Perhaps
we could also see its blossoms as a metaphor for the land waving its flag to
remind us to care properly for it. It is precisely wattle’s long presence in
and deep association with the land that sets it apart as a national symbol and
endows it with added meaning.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wattle touches all levels of society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s all take a moment this National Wattle Day and reflect
on the wattle flower which symbolises an egalitarian, classless, free
citizenry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, when the blaze of wattle lights up the Australian
landscape each year, let’s all remember that the wattle is a symbol of our land
that unites us all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BP9S0mW1D_Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="BP9S0mW1D_Q"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-89372250785263968852023-07-26T20:16:00.014+10:002023-07-26T20:22:06.317+10:00Historian honoured as an advocate for Australian independence<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGPPyPji6KIMB0tjz3kl6XNwF6X0bHawGJ6hVm2TxpUHgZ2Z3ouSacxOUjq58RGCeqLxPHqllgx5uU7LBynr5vJZXaqouFopsJWzIhzNeMCWnsTSMC4zibRPbu9HOOijzOkERXBsCqlAb-_6-9orw7vy9je_vxIv8z8-TJZLOkIhAqUD6BgFo/s4032/Ben%20Jones%20&%20Alderman%20Paul%20Tully.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGPPyPji6KIMB0tjz3kl6XNwF6X0bHawGJ6hVm2TxpUHgZ2Z3ouSacxOUjq58RGCeqLxPHqllgx5uU7LBynr5vJZXaqouFopsJWzIhzNeMCWnsTSMC4zibRPbu9HOOijzOkERXBsCqlAb-_6-9orw7vy9je_vxIv8z8-TJZLOkIhAqUD6BgFo/w278-h206/Ben%20Jones%20&%20Alderman%20Paul%20Tully.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><p>Was pleased to be able to celebrate
the awarding of the 33rd Republican Party of Australia 'Australian Republican
of the Year' to Dr <a href="https://www.facebook.com/benny.jones.798?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZWkn3SjdQ2xdAjR0p0jY9V0lbHoOE8M9rWIYCzysQobjx35LyrhigrifCUPdiR59D6u016wJIr87jQfm_FOWeNxjvhXTdxFNjiGPuJkGKFQ6e2KrgXbCqs76NAkd2u7-2b5vlZcPvDaDxFCZtpwjOPOmZq7sFtpbP4TC7IpjBKerA&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><span style="color: blue;">Benjamin Jones</span></a> recently in Paddington, Brisbane.</p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ben Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at Central Queensland University who has
published widely on Australian republican history and is an active member of
the Australian Republic Movement. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Ipswich Councillor Paul Tully presenting Dr Ben Jones' Australian Republican o the Year award. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More information at: <a href="https://www.cqu.edu.au/news/995080/historian-honoured-as-an-advocate-for-australian-independence">https://www.cqu.edu.au/news/995080/historian-honoured-as-an-advocate-for-australian-independence</a> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i> <br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.cqu.edu.au/news/995080/historian-honoured-as-an-advocate-for-australian-independence?fbclid=IwAR2ve26kX1jBBNxDP6kgYbmCkEoV3nP_ohW2NAzj1gugiNPZ7mvo3RGKI6c"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkmMQzKt0CbJy5n0m_WaOcloxr--UK7fUZG1Umu2orWZyOIWpc7M39Mf8Kdv0gM1RGZt7nFmy_zDeNmO4GSpani_2SbWmnVaLccjqGmYPWnqgpPOmwLKFKA61QM58n8re5JGMkTaozlxqqGQBzATBSoFfjeXqF2BEQE1BoHQaBqg8xXegN3ZW/s4032/Ben%20Jones_Peter%20Consandine_Glenn%20Davies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkmMQzKt0CbJy5n0m_WaOcloxr--UK7fUZG1Umu2orWZyOIWpc7M39Mf8Kdv0gM1RGZt7nFmy_zDeNmO4GSpani_2SbWmnVaLccjqGmYPWnqgpPOmwLKFKA61QM58n8re5JGMkTaozlxqqGQBzATBSoFfjeXqF2BEQE1BoHQaBqg8xXegN3ZW/s320/Ben%20Jones_Peter%20Consandine_Glenn%20Davies.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><i></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><i>L-R Dr Ben Jones with RPA founder Peter Consandine, and 2015 Republican of the Year Dr Glenn Davies</i><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-24105122345438054022023-05-06T21:15:00.004+10:002023-05-06T21:16:43.221+10:00My Coronation Oath<p><b><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Will you be ‘obeying’ King Charles III and swearing loyalty
to a foreign King today? </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">King
Charles III’s coronation is being held today, 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey in
London in front of about 2200 guests.</span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQ_r06QppJl5l0DQYAv-zzVVS8_NSz096hR0suUa5KWn2ereDTNzuTnprsxgcI7q1sGJ1MFZbwI0a4ybmNJHcqhkdNbw30IB2Gp2CK31gRwnddAB2upjTLI5K9R9iwkO0X7J4jIuk25XUe8EPH3oHwFRMMnYhCfBuYQg7BW0TC61YBsPpYg/s1080/344541955_753916763030675_613381177958758514_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1080" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQ_r06QppJl5l0DQYAv-zzVVS8_NSz096hR0suUa5KWn2ereDTNzuTnprsxgcI7q1sGJ1MFZbwI0a4ybmNJHcqhkdNbw30IB2Gp2CK31gRwnddAB2upjTLI5K9R9iwkO0X7J4jIuk25XUe8EPH3oHwFRMMnYhCfBuYQg7BW0TC61YBsPpYg/s320/344541955_753916763030675_613381177958758514_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All guests have been asked to make the
following pledge during the ceremony.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to
your heirs and successors according to law – so help me God."</span></i></b><span style="color: #293a72; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The push is also on to have everyone
else say the same words wherever you are when King Charles III is crowned King
of Australia. Never in my lifetime has there been a stronger reminder that
it's time for us to have an Australian Head of State who truly represents and
understands our values, culture, and ideals. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_TnHrc32JElJiVDSv4hojIT30A-s8BpoMBp3_yggWTQgSaCpahgLzLILy_tgWIUsjx9V-SUsvhw4v0cuQwwgs4Fftx9RKUp8EQXAon8Y0z0kpsf2xijNBXoMHwROX5XAdZyijOlYl33tqwZtEBiXcr6s3QqssgufbiOGfYd146tfA2PZtA/s366/345066991_188251783685201_8715677409055287960_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="366" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_TnHrc32JElJiVDSv4hojIT30A-s8BpoMBp3_yggWTQgSaCpahgLzLILy_tgWIUsjx9V-SUsvhw4v0cuQwwgs4Fftx9RKUp8EQXAon8Y0z0kpsf2xijNBXoMHwROX5XAdZyijOlYl33tqwZtEBiXcr6s3QqssgufbiOGfYd146tfA2PZtA/w200-h172/345066991_188251783685201_8715677409055287960_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My oath - below is the pledge of
allegiance I’ll be supporting today. </span></p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://twitter.com/tim_brannigan/status/1652735715178954753?fbclid=IwAR2C8X4Y0qtGw0Ng90sl2HVZbVw20sJmK7WFgiQ3ykT0WJqw7ceCdOM7g2g">https://twitter.com/tim_brannigan/status/1652735715178954753?fbclid=IwAR2C8X4Y0qtGw0Ng90sl2HVZbVw20sJmK7WFgiQ3ykT0WJqw7ceCdOM7g2g</a></span><p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-14518766432421932362023-04-30T22:27:00.001+10:002023-04-30T22:27:33.958+10:00Democracy not Monarchy: Australians don't want a King<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><b>Having
lunch at the Fox & Firkin Hotel in Adelaide Hills, South Australia
today with the fam when I looked up and saw the hotel was flying the
'butchers apron'. </b></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6wxFOsCRbCHvmZ1XitUTS3hSbcEfeRC-yoYXkgpJmxCWu3JAf8n6r23me0sW3_7Axm0RWOJkmT-eKsI6K9Ov9qvTIyQcw5i_uDWRdC9jZnaqGZDy-7oYqCwpQwEZGGZ8YJ6EnmfY9FzY-Gz9akx8RkFRnsEPlpUkgQyeOkwRmZ22qe4I3g/s894/IMG_3142.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="894" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6wxFOsCRbCHvmZ1XitUTS3hSbcEfeRC-yoYXkgpJmxCWu3JAf8n6r23me0sW3_7Axm0RWOJkmT-eKsI6K9Ov9qvTIyQcw5i_uDWRdC9jZnaqGZDy-7oYqCwpQwEZGGZ8YJ6EnmfY9FzY-Gz9akx8RkFRnsEPlpUkgQyeOkwRmZ22qe4I3g/w320-h136/IMG_3142.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="line-height: 18pt;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Coronation of King Charles is almost here, even though Australians don't want a King. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King Charles spent seven decades preparing foer the day he would succeed his mother Queen Elizabeth. As we approach the coronation of
King Charles III, many Australians are reflecting on our relationship with
the Crown and what it means for our country's future. Australia is a very
different country now than it was 100 years ago, and the idea of a monarchy
resonates differently today for our vast multicultural population. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A hushed conversation has been
stirring for some decades now, but since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II
it’s reached fever pitch – orbiting the central question: what is
Australia’s national identity? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As our government strives to be
more progressive, how can we reconcile the complex relationship between
the Crown and Indigenous Australians, and the impact of colonisation on
the ongoing struggle for recognition and reconciliation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monarchy is an archaic, colonial institution. not something that an independent democratic country should have. <br /></span></p>
<span face=""Open Sans",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"></span><p></p><p>The right to lead Australia should be earned not inherited. Every
important choice about our future should be in Australian hands. </p><p>King Charles is unrepresentative, unelected and
unaccountable to us as Australians. It is inspiring to see Australia grow into
our contemporary, multicultural skin based on a foundation of truth,
recognition and independence.</p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">No one had a pen, so used my daughters mascara to
declare that now is the time for Australia to have an Australian, chosen
by Australians as our Head of State, and declared the
following to King Charles and his Mrs.</span></p><p>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifA0EpxPU1BZ1ju0CbF6iRElmPO64z_PZaY259ygpBLineaH3FFel3jLC3erdhbST_5CuT-kEZNDIP0p9GKYYJU_BC72AKk-WPyGQEkeL71buXr1xgUztTVDTPRSg4Wil-Qv0yOw28SJAWbLyLQZg4d_oNYcr7rt7aLacadEijcTQXFNFlRA/s4032/IMG_3144.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifA0EpxPU1BZ1ju0CbF6iRElmPO64z_PZaY259ygpBLineaH3FFel3jLC3erdhbST_5CuT-kEZNDIP0p9GKYYJU_BC72AKk-WPyGQEkeL71buXr1xgUztTVDTPRSg4Wil-Qv0yOw28SJAWbLyLQZg4d_oNYcr7rt7aLacadEijcTQXFNFlRA/s320/IMG_3144.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-5479368363181430312023-03-25T15:48:00.002+10:002023-03-25T15:48:41.966+10:00Royal Duties include 'walkies'<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>This past week
I’ve been chaperoning the Queensland student delegation to the 28th National
Schools Constitutional Convention, held in Old Parliament, Canberra. While
there we had the opportunity to look though the ‘Between the Lines’ political
cartoons exhibition in Old Parliament House.</b></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was taken by
Chris Downes’ ‘Royal Duties’ published in <i>The Mercury</i>, 12 September 2022
that reminded us when Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 at Balmoral
Castle, Scotland after 70 years on the British throne, she had four dogs: two
corgis, one dorgi (corgi-dachshund cross) and a cocker spaniel, all of whom
world require ‘walkies’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqJZ_9l_NF5ZfGRJtcpg-HGvKqzZ9dgHOv0ClEtvcYoy8-6IXjdMj5Hw0LjZadQoW3kXjwD6kkeo8BsLDr9bZ_s-YGRk9gl51yXhgFOxNbZDcF9Ee-R6yLn72XsdmgbC9PDVBYty4afv2cWBJjcnvWI36JFiURCPAslE8ILpEL7TY6NL-4Q/s4032/IMG_2991.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqJZ_9l_NF5ZfGRJtcpg-HGvKqzZ9dgHOv0ClEtvcYoy8-6IXjdMj5Hw0LjZadQoW3kXjwD6kkeo8BsLDr9bZ_s-YGRk9gl51yXhgFOxNbZDcF9Ee-R6yLn72XsdmgbC9PDVBYty4afv2cWBJjcnvWI36JFiURCPAslE8ILpEL7TY6NL-4Q/w400-h300/IMG_2991.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-23459899702956871762023-03-01T13:59:00.005+10:002023-03-01T14:00:51.303+10:00Reserve Bank will give us change for $5<p class="lead"><b>The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided not to
replace Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait on the Australian $5 note with the
features of King Charles III.</b></p>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO66OrJSkqwBY9r-1KQMvvnPvnhuvrzvRnz81xkx8_RZlaflQURSA3p0UGDpPQF1pMyLeU7PeKD5bVYZy-ngrek1J7sMqebFQEuLKxRjlsR79QNcjuAytcwAtdX1snl6F3ZqRrMAsjRKIu4W9MAQ3z-ZRmLzPTfP23iNJhAJtOyARGUcL9-A/s650/article-17258-hero.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="650" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO66OrJSkqwBY9r-1KQMvvnPvnhuvrzvRnz81xkx8_RZlaflQURSA3p0UGDpPQF1pMyLeU7PeKD5bVYZy-ngrek1J7sMqebFQEuLKxRjlsR79QNcjuAytcwAtdX1snl6F3ZqRrMAsjRKIu4W9MAQ3z-ZRmLzPTfP23iNJhAJtOyARGUcL9-A/s320/article-17258-hero.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>CONTROVERSIES OVER currency and the British Royal Family have not
been uncommon in Australia. Valentine’s Day 1966 was when decimal
currency replaced Imperial pounds, shillings and pence in Australian
commerce. Now the Reserve Bank of Australia <a href="https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2023/mr-23-02.html" target="_blank">has decided to</a> replace the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and <i>‘update the $5 banknote to feature a new design that honours the culture and history of the First Australians’</i>.<p></p><p>The change being brought in by the RBA is an important symbolic step.</p>
<p>National Chair of the <a href="https://republic.org.au" target="_blank">Australian Republic Movement</a> Craig Foster <a href="https://republic.org.au/media/2023/2/2/australian-republic-movement-welcomes-rba-5-decision" target="_blank">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>“Australia believes in meritocracy so the idea that someone
should be on our currency by birthright is irreconcilable as is the
notion that they should be our head of state by birthright.”</i></p>
</blockquote><p>The portrait of Queen Elizabeth II first <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/get-your-queen-off-our-fiver,8907" target="_blank">appeared</a> on the $5 polymer note in July 1992 when she celebrated the 40th anniversary of her accession.</p>
<p>The RBA’s decision now is to update the $5 banknote to feature a new
design that honours the culture and history of the First Australians.
The other side of the $5 banknote will continue to feature the
Australian Parliament. The decision by the RBA is a natural consequence
of recognising the important place of First Nations Australians in our
national story.</p><p>Controversies over <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-royal-money-controversies-of-1963-and-2011,3197" target="_blank">currency and the Royals</a>
have occurred in Australia. The Australian dollar was first introduced
in 1966 when it replaced the Australian pound and introduced a decimal
system to the nation. Although investigated as an alternative as early
as 1901, the decimal currency system was initially introduced to
Australia as an election promise by then Prime Minister Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Menzies" target="_blank">Robert Menzies</a> in 1958.</p>
<p>There was <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-royal-money-controversies-of-1963-and-2011,3197" target="_blank">much discussion</a>
about the name of the new currency, with several specifically
Australian names such as the “Kanga”, “Austral”, “Merino” and “Dinkum”
bandied around. A public naming competition seeking suggestions with an
Australian flavour added nearly 1,000 names to this list including such
exotic suggestions as “Oz”, “Boomer”, “Roo”, “Kanga”, “Emu”, “Koala”,
“Digger”, “Zac”, “Kwid” and “Ming” (the nickname of Prime Minister
Menzies).<br />
<br />
In June 1963, with no clear consensus having emerged on a name, the
Government decided to name the new currency the “Royal”. Treasurer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt" target="_blank">Harold Holt</a> explained that the Government <a target="_blank">saw this name</a> as <i>“emphasising our link with the Crown”</i> and as being <i>“a dignified word with a pleasing sound”</i>.<br />
<br />
Between June and September 1963, the Bank's <a href="https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/production-and-distribution/production/" target="_blank">Note Printing</a> branch developed a variety of design concepts for the Royal notes.<br />
<br />
While the name “Royal” was settled upon initially, it proved extremely
unpopular with the Australian people. Just three months after announcing
the “Royal” decision the Government conceded on 19 September 1963 that
the name of the currency unit would be the “Dollar”. This decision won
quick and general public approval.<br />
<br />
The official conversion to decimal currency took place on 14 February
1966. The jingle below became well-known to many Australians in the
lead-up to the conversion date.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZTeWLA1LAs" width="320" youtube-src-id="5ZTeWLA1LAs"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><blockquote>
<p><i>In come the dollars and in come the cents,<br />
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence,<br />
Be prepared for change when the coins begin to mix,<br />
On the fourteenth of February 1966.</i></p>
<p><i>Clink go the coins, clink, clink, clink,<br />
Change over day is closer than you think,<br />
Learn the value of the coins and the way that they appear,<br />
And things will be much smoother when the decimal point is here.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Thankfully, the 1960s Menzies Government finally saw sense in not
pushing the “Royal” onto the Australian people. It was a term not
recognised as remotely appropriate by Australians.</p><p>Australian life has been undergoing processes of change for a long
time — 57 years ago, decimal currency replaced Imperial pounds,
shillings and pence in Australian commerce. Four years after that, we
replaced Imperial measurement with the metric system.</p>
<p>We look forward to the day we replace a British Royal with an Australian as our head of state.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XhJQq4zSeaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="XhJQq4zSeaw"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-22829101484648886122023-01-10T23:44:00.006+10:002023-01-10T23:44:50.491+10:00The Monarchy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)<p><b>On 14 November 2022, John Oliver discussed the future of the British monarchy, what they have and have not acknowledged about their past, and how Winston Churchill preferred to go down waterslides.</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KWterDbJKjY" width="442" youtube-src-id="KWterDbJKjY"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-49167807028995766952023-01-01T23:08:00.001+10:002023-01-01T23:09:03.998+10:00Turning over a new leaf<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Great
image from the front page of <i>The Bulletin</i>, 4 January 1890. Happy New
Year everyone and three cheers for the coming republic.</span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXm-HEaeFx0hdfg5bkiVCp4bQfvxry6GZdrpGDbAzqqFQoLOTXj4tX9i1tPZU_4aVhKjjtT0Ao2Z-spKqFN0jzAuH6cFKVdUYIjjknrKKSprTzVWD1CZlvOtaNpA5FytpTMvcVCouQLqW3l8BwpvB8GPV60KnWGikshdiMSfQaQFMBkvN_Q/s927/Turning%20over%20a%20new%20leaf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="563" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXm-HEaeFx0hdfg5bkiVCp4bQfvxry6GZdrpGDbAzqqFQoLOTXj4tX9i1tPZU_4aVhKjjtT0Ao2Z-spKqFN0jzAuH6cFKVdUYIjjknrKKSprTzVWD1CZlvOtaNpA5FytpTMvcVCouQLqW3l8BwpvB8GPV60KnWGikshdiMSfQaQFMBkvN_Q/w388-h640/Turning%20over%20a%20new%20leaf.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-45642652715068832062022-11-17T16:45:00.000+10:002022-11-17T16:45:04.870+10:00Craig Foster succeeds Peter FitzSimons as Republic Movement head<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span></b><b>Human rights and anti-racism activist, former Socceroo Craig Foster
AM, has been elected to lead the Australian Republic Movement after
Peter FitzSimons stepped down.</b><em><br /></em></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgINNpyAcNqQlda5Yb-WkZzUIrcg1LL3nXlA1kR4Xtc7Zr1WETj4jdwqyiMFd9-xKVT-SykLo96Dm1XTWf7zwbu6KhCT_3I0oPsrrt67xFWBkdKhe-Yw5P41YesMyIXGCoYS5ohvy_EyTceC0Tg7bEw6yO9J7qKjx2VPQVNkcYz9ATn1rKktQ/s650/Craig%20Foster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="650" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgINNpyAcNqQlda5Yb-WkZzUIrcg1LL3nXlA1kR4Xtc7Zr1WETj4jdwqyiMFd9-xKVT-SykLo96Dm1XTWf7zwbu6KhCT_3I0oPsrrt67xFWBkdKhe-Yw5P41YesMyIXGCoYS5ohvy_EyTceC0Tg7bEw6yO9J7qKjx2VPQVNkcYz9ATn1rKktQ/s320/Craig%20Foster.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>NOVEMBER IS Australia’s "republic season" — a time of year full of
republican symbolism, as well as republican remembering. It’s a time to
look forward and reflect back. It is also the time Peter FitzSimons has
chosen to pull up stumps as National Chair Australian Republic Movement (<a href="https://republic.org.au/about" target="_blank">ARM</a>) after seven years.<p></p><p>In November, we reflect upon the year, do annual reviews, weigh up
what’s been achieved and what hasn’t and set targets and goals for the
coming year.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day" target="_blank">Remembrance Day</a> has set the tone for November as a time to reflect and remember each year on 11 November since 1919, the Armistice of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" target="_blank">Great War</a>.</p>
<p>When we pause at 11 am on 11 November, we reflect on the price that
Australia and countries around the world have paid through more than a
century of war and conflict that followed the First World War.</p>
<p>As famously captured in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Binyon" target="_blank">Laurence Binyon</a>'s <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen" target="_blank">poem</a> <em>'For the Fallen'</em>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<br />
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br />
At the going down of the sun and in the morning<br />
We will remember them.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>However, there were annual events before the establishment of Remembrance Day that tapped into this reflective time of year.</p><p>The <a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/10/31/all_saints_day,_november_1,_2017/1346206" target="_blank">Feast of Saints</a>
is held at the beginning of November and is now widely observed across
the world to remember those recognised as today’s saints — known or
unknown, mighty or lowly.</p>
<p>This is followed on 2 November by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day" target="_blank">All Souls’ Day</a>, an official holiday in the Catholic <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ecclesiastical-calendar#:~:text=a%20calendar%20based%20on%20the,seasons%20for%20fasts%20and%20festivals." target="_blank">ecclesiastical calendar</a>. Also known as<a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2022-11-02#:~:text=The%20Commemoration%20of%20All%20the,2022%20%2D%20Liturgical%20Calendar%20%7C%20Catholic%20Culture" target="_blank"> The Commemoration of all The Faithful Departed</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead" target="_blank">Day of the Dead</a>, All Souls’ Day is generally a day of remembrance when prayers are said for the souls of those who have passed on.</p><p>Around the world, All Souls’ Day often involves visiting cemeteries
where loved ones are buried and tending to their graves. Attending a
mass or church service, praying and eating particular foods are all part
of these observations.</p>
<p>This is followed on 5 November with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night" target="_blank">Guy Fawkes Night</a>, which remembers the survival of <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" target="_blank">James I</a> from <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" target="_blank">Guy Fawkes</a>’ assassination plot when he attempted to blow up the House of Lords in 1605.</p>
<p>Many will know this English <a href="https://potw.org/archive/potw405.html" target="_blank">folk verse</a>, circa 1870:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Remember, remember!<br />
The fifth of November,<br />
The gunpowder treason and plot;<br />
I know of no reason<br />
Why the gunpowder treason<br />
Should ever be forgot!</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In an earlier Australia, we held "bonfire night", or cracker night, to mark the anniversary of the <a href="https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/bonfire-night-a-400-year-old-political-hot-potato/?fbclid=IwAR28mgUZpRbfa-s7_D9oOrT0jioE7XD-gVsGmEh2IOShXkPZkdDLrMgmDog" target="_blank">failure </a>of the <a target="_blank">Gunpowder Plot</a>.</p>
<p>I have <a href="http://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/november-is-time-for-australian-republican-remembering,15743" target="_blank">written</a> in I<em>A</em> before about how November is a time for<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/november-is-time-for-australian-republican-remembering,15743"> </a>Australian
republic-remembering. It is a time when ARM has always elected its
national leaders since the foundation of the movement in 1991.</p>
<p>In October 2022, Peter FitzSimons announced he would step down from
the head position of ARM at its national meeting on 15 November 2022.</p>
<p>The author and journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/01/peter-fitzsimons-to-step-down-as-arm-chair-as-abetz-attacks-republic-campaigns-elitism">stated</a> his exit will:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>“... pave the way for younger, more diverse voices.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>After seven years as a drum for ARM, FitzSimons suggests now is the time for a flute.</p>
<p>At ARM's national committee <a href="https://republic.org.au/elections" target="_blank">elections</a> in October 2022, the campaign for an Australian republic was supercharged with the election of <a href="https://republic.org.au/media/2022/10/25/new-leadership-to-transform-campaign-for-an-australian-republic" target="_blank">nine new directors</a>, including:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Social justice advocate, author, adjunct professor and former
Socceroos captain Craig Foster was elected alongside Olympic and
Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist <a href="https://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/peris-nova-17821" target="_blank">Nova Peris </a>— who
was also the first Aboriginal woman elected to the Federal Parliament
in 2013. Adding further media clout is veteran media presenter and
University of Sydney mathematics ambassador <a href="https://stem2021.com.au/speakers-and-presenters/adam-spencer/" target="_blank">Adam Spencer</a>.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Foster" target="_blank">Craig Foster AM</a>, human rights and anti-racism activist, and former Socceroo <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/craig-foster-leads-republic-movement-vote-as-committee-backs-progressives-20221023-p5bs5s.html?fbclid=IwAR05WjmIhGTfBTebQ8OAQcN9JMOd2Ko3yUjLo7q6Oi3GRH83e8iPaWkWtpw" target="_blank">topped the poll</a>.</p>
<p>Foster is one of Australia’s most powerful voices for the
disadvantaged. The 29-times-capped Socceroo and award-winning sports
broadcaster has spent the past decade campaigning for refugee rights and
marginalised communities. He promotes anti-racism, allyship and what he
calls "active multiculturalism" — communities protecting each other. As
the patron of Australia’s Indigenous football teams, he works hard for a
better Australia.</p><p>In early November this year, it was announced that Foster had been selected <a href="https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/congratulations-to-2023-nsw-australians-of-year?fbclid=IwAR2j5NZ0rN9rl-Qy6KRWOZ1L13fISOfQPDjE8P94Bg3w-CFnV009piKjs5k" target="_blank">Australian of the Year 2023 for NSW</a> and on 15 November 2022 was elected unopposed as National Chair Australian Republic Movement.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank">Peter FitzSimons</a> joins a line of impressive ARM leaders. The founding chairman of ARM (1991-1993) was author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally" target="_blank">Tom Keneally</a>. Following, were: Prime Minister <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=885" target="_blank">Malcolm Turnbull</a> (1993-2000); barrister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Barns" target="_blank">Greg Barns</a> (2000-2002); Professor<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/john-warhurst--australian-republican-hero,3153" target="_blank"> John Warhurst</a> (2002-2005); businessman and future federal politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_O%27Brien_(Australian_politician)" target="_blank">Ted O’Brien</a> (2005 to 2007); Major-General<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/bio-of-major-general-michael-keating-ao,3004" target="_blank"> Mike Keating</a> (2007 to 2012); former Premier of Western Australia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Gallop" target="_blank">Geoff Gallop</a> (2012-2015) and finally author and journalist Peter FitzSimons<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"> </a>(2015-2022).
</p><p>As one of our <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/peter-fitzsimons-to-reboot-the-republic,7988" target="_blank">foremost writers</a> of Australian history, Peter FitzSimons has captured some of the pivotal moments that have shaped our national identity.</p>
<p>Upon his appointment to head up ARM in 2015, FitzSimons is reported as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/20/peter-fitzsimons-appointed-head-of-australian-republican-movement" target="_blank">saying</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"I think most Australians agree that there is a fundamental
injustice at the heart of our system when a young boy or girl growing up
in this great country can aspire to just about any job except the one
that should be the most representative of all — head of state."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>During his 2015 <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/national-press-club/" target="_blank">National Press Club speech</a>, Peter FitzSimons stated:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"... we are putting the band back together... In the 21st Century
it is ludicrous that we still have a system whereby none of our kids
will ever be good enough to fill that role because they are not born to
that </em>[British Royal]<em> family. I am, you are, we are Australian. We must call it for what it is — not right, simply not fair." </em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>FitzSimons' herculean efforts leading ARM over the past seven years
will be remembered. When the coming republic is achieved and definitive
histories are written, Fitzy won't be mentioned only in footnotes.
There's a chapter, if not more, waiting to be written on him.</p>
<p>In Australia, the November republic season includes the anniversary of the 6 November <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_republic_referendum,_1999" target="_blank">1999 Australian republic referendum</a></em>, the
3 November 1997 anniversary of the voluntary postal election for the
1998 Constitutional Convention, as well as the anniversary of former
Prime Minister <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/comrade-gough-and-the-australian-republic,7023" target="_blank">Gough Whitlam</a>’s <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/secret-palace-letters-could-illuminate-whitlam-dismissal-if-finally-released,13811" target="_blank">Dismissal</a> on 11 November 1975 by Governor-General of the day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)" target="_blank">John Kerr</a>.</p>
<p>The Dismissal of Whitlam in 1975 arguably remains the most <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXq056TJhU4&t=20s" target="_blank">dramatic event</a> in Australia’s political history and began the modern republic movement. Recently there have been <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/volcanic-evidence-of-queens-involvement-in-the-1975-dismissal-uncovered-20171015-gz18zd.html" target="_blank">claims</a> the British monarch was<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-royal-green-light-behind-the-dismissal-of-the-whitlam-government,10852" target="_blank"> involved</a> in Australia’s 1975 constitutional crisis.</p>
<p>Important <a href="http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-palace-letters-professor-jenny-hocking/book/9781922310248.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk43RoLyD7wIVs51LBR1VQwwBEAQYASABEgJAjPD_BwE" target="_blank">Book</a><em> 'The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam'</em> is the ground-breaking result of historian Professor<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/jenny-hocking,951" target="_blank"> Jenny Hocking</a>’s fight to <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/palace-letters-add-to-the-history-of-the-whitlam-dismissal,14109" target="_blank">expose</a>
secret letters between the Queen and Australian Governor-General John
Kerr during the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. Hocking provides a piercing
analysis of both the extreme efforts made to stop her and what the
letters themselves revealed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqMCZBjvmD4" width="320" youtube-src-id="vqMCZBjvmD4"></iframe></div><p></p><p>Fifty years ago, on 13 November 1972, Gough Whitlam launched the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Time_(Australian_campaign)" target="_blank">It’s Time</a>" election campaign at Blacktown’s Bowman Hall, in the heart of Western Sydney.</p>
<p>In his <a href="https://whitlamdismissal.com/1972/11/13/whitlam-1972-election-policy-speech.html" target="_blank">policy speech</a> Whitlam stated the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Men and women of Australia. The decision we will make for our
country on 2 December is a choice between the past and the future,
between the habits and fears of the past, and the demands and
opportunities of the future. There are moments in history when the whole
fate and future of nations can be decided by a single decision. For
Australia, this is such a time.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In early November 2015, the first significant policy change for the new Turnbull Government was to call it a “knight” on titles.</p>
<p>The formal removal by then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of one of previous Prime Minister <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=EZ5" target="_blank">Tony Abbott</a>’s most unpopular “<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/prince-philip-passes-away-years-after-australian-knighting-controversy,14977" target="_blank">captain’s picks</a>”, resolved a national embarrassment. Turnbull confirmed there would be no more anachronistic Australian knights and dames.</p><p></p><p>Australia’s “knightmare” was finally over. In abolishing the titles of knight and dame from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia" target="_blank">Order of Australia</a> awards, Turnbull helped the growth of the movement for an Australian republic.</p>
<p>Early November also sees the anniversaries of the <a href="http://theconversation.com/booing-at-a-memorial-politeness-and-political-ritual-33995" target="_blank">2014 memorial</a> for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (1971-1975), as well as the 12 November eulogy delivered for Professor <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/george-winterton-republican-pathfinder,3120" target="_blank">George Winterton</a>.</p>
<p>Winterton was a first-rank constitutional scholar and pioneer of the
modern republic debate. He spent most of his career at the University of
New South Wales, was a prominent republic scholar and writer, a member
of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Advisory_Committee" target="_blank">Republic Advisory Committee</a> in the mid-1990s and a key delegate to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Constitutional_Convention_1998" target="_blank">1998 Constitutional Convention</a> that crafted the minimalist republic model rejected in the <em>1999 Australian republic referendum</em>. More than anyone else, he produced the model that went to the people in that referendum.</p>
<p>Australians need a head of state of their own — someone who can lead
the dignified part of their national life away from the day-to-day
screaming match of Federal Parliament and Question Time.</p>
<p>Craig Foster will now help to lead us to this future.</p>
<p>So, <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/remember-remember-australias-republican-november,10918" target="_blank">remember</a>, remember, Australia’s republican November!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QHHPS2gYMcc" width="320" youtube-src-id="QHHPS2gYMcc"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-34112588898990416762022-10-30T20:58:00.007+10:002022-10-30T21:07:01.332+10:00Remembering Lang's Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 27 October 1852, John Dunmore Lang, a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian
minister, writer, historian, politician and activist, published the first major
argument for an Australian republic and his best-known work, <i>Freedom and
Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia.</i></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Dunmore Lang was born on 25 August 1799 at Greenock, Scotland and was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
lectures delivered in Sydney in April 1850 Lang proclaimed his republicanism
for the Australian colonies. This republicanism was due partly to his belief in
the necessity of local self-rule, because he thought all government from a
distance was bad government, and partly to his recent treatment by the British
government and his dislike of aristocratic influences in English society and
politics.</span></p>
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1850, with aid from Henry Parkes and other radicals Lang founded the Australian
League to encourage a sense of national identity and to resist any further
convict transportation.</span></p>
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title <i>Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia</i> has
become an established slogan of political radicalism and republicanism in
Australia.</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="css-901oao"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Today is the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 by wartime prime minister, John
Curtin. In 1942, Prime Minister Curtin enacted the Statute of Westminster to
remove British Imperial authority to legislate for Australia</b>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="css-901oao"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This was a key step in our independence.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Uph1mnciIr1rTjRbR0Cdb4goXiAGX0ZadJdzFtqjE_d81M1-QphEh-1h6z2x4LHGbDaB2o5iUdpTU5Clwl9lB525GAKEh1C4yqQEsHygR1s80zQQUWJdRxyY30pZ4v8lOayjboDYopnkXk-vVWDVk_5xUFcr5kKOZEMEKUMovngDg8EHVg/s458/John%20Curtin.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Uph1mnciIr1rTjRbR0Cdb4goXiAGX0ZadJdzFtqjE_d81M1-QphEh-1h6z2x4LHGbDaB2o5iUdpTU5Clwl9lB525GAKEh1C4yqQEsHygR1s80zQQUWJdRxyY30pZ4v8lOayjboDYopnkXk-vVWDVk_5xUFcr5kKOZEMEKUMovngDg8EHVg/s320/John%20Curtin.jpg" width="210" /></a></div>While
Australia's growing independence from the United Kingdom was well accepted, the
adoption of the Statute of Westminster formally demonstrated Australia's
independence to the world.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
the 1926 Imperial Conference, the governments of the Dominions and of the
United Kingdom endorsed the Balfour Declaration of 1926, which declared that
the Dominions were autonomous members of the British Empire, equal to each
other and to the United Kingdom. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Statute of Westminster 1931 gave legal effect to the Balfour Declaration and
other decisions made at the Imperial Conferences. Most importantly, it declared
that the Parliament of the United Kingdom no longer had any legislative
authority over the Dominions. </span></p>
<p><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Australian politicians initially resisted
ratification of the Statute, particularly John Latham, the Attorney-General and
Minister for External Affairs under Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. He thought it
would weaken military and political ties with the United Kingdom. However,
other politicians supported the Statute, and the new independence it gave to
Australia. </span></p>
<p><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">John Curtin, who became prime minister eight
weeks before the Imperial Japanese Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbour, on 7
December 1941 was finally prompted to adopt the Statute in 1942 after the Fall
of Singapore and the sinking of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HMS
Prince of Wales</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HMS Repulse</i>.
Prior conservative governments had asserted that British military forces would
be able to protect Australia, but Curtin, along with External Affairs Minister
Dr H.V. Evatt, thought that focusing on an alliance with the United States
would be more valuable. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prime
Minister John Curtin's decision to formally adopt the Statute of Westminster on
9 October 1942 was a demonstration to the international community that
Australia was an independent nation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LoIyjKB-ZVw" width="320" youtube-src-id="LoIyjKB-ZVw"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
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<p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-45804066851125152642022-09-19T13:39:00.002+10:002022-09-19T13:39:25.932+10:00# Not My King<p><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8rp_zSapinvYkB_B2XHNuY0bnSz58Qh7z68NnQXiXUqLwK1UZC7NCplKoEBxqDlAjI7nQ8qb-w0W7dbo7oBCaxEfCVHxLB0quwaU2Y_Ngv60eKZ045R0iCtqw61MmrGqMLKkqH03wcOjptltrMk9THeVmh-2sCw2lCYm0vbGdDRJaUcJuQ/s596/%23Not%20My%20King.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="596" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8rp_zSapinvYkB_B2XHNuY0bnSz58Qh7z68NnQXiXUqLwK1UZC7NCplKoEBxqDlAjI7nQ8qb-w0W7dbo7oBCaxEfCVHxLB0quwaU2Y_Ngv60eKZ045R0iCtqw61MmrGqMLKkqH03wcOjptltrMk9THeVmh-2sCw2lCYm0vbGdDRJaUcJuQ/w85-h74/%23Not%20My%20King.JPG" width="85" /></a></div>'<i>But us Aussies are still girt by monarchy</i>'. <p></p><p><b><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto">What a great line from Sammy J channeling Banjo Paterson. Always spot on. </span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AExPYUB8X90" width="422" youtube-src-id="AExPYUB8X90"></iframe></div><br /><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"></span><p></p><p><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><br /></span></p><p><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><br /></span></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-86496077707907993232022-09-09T14:10:00.004+10:002022-09-09T14:10:47.517+10:00Second Elizabethan reign comes to an end<p> <b><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"></span></b></p><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><b>The Australian Republic Movement was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Queen Elizabeth, and acknowledges the significant contribution she made over more than seven decades as Head of State to Australia and 14 other nations.</b></div></div><p></p><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="d2hqwtrz r227ecj6 ez8dtbzv gt60zsk1" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_7t"><div class="alzwoclg cqf1kptm siwo0mpr gu5uzgus"><div class="jroqu855 nthtkgg5"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxIn7NhKindyaV7hutvGV_ZB3HxOeBDYLEDUN_62C4osZZBbHxkf2Ee927R84Vv_oQCGXxosQS8-33FV9J2WCWV35x_AL8oF_UzGedLW3Uynj_iir4KF5SMzEWp4wFxsa7tq3T7GsMACJMIcd3sUBf7ma-QGe-mYgAlt1e2_I35_C7DBnlg/s1502/305757768_10225673849026320_6172205949220824961_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1502" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxIn7NhKindyaV7hutvGV_ZB3HxOeBDYLEDUN_62C4osZZBbHxkf2Ee927R84Vv_oQCGXxosQS8-33FV9J2WCWV35x_AL8oF_UzGedLW3Uynj_iir4KF5SMzEWp4wFxsa7tq3T7GsMACJMIcd3sUBf7ma-QGe-mYgAlt1e2_I35_C7DBnlg/s320/305757768_10225673849026320_6172205949220824961_n.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>Many Australians have known no other Head of State – the length of her reign was unrivalled. As monarch, Queen Elizabeth was a patron of more than 600 organisations and served them admirably. She rose to become a respected representative of Britain <span></span>and the Commonwealth.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Queen Elizabeth respected the self-determination of the Australian people. During her reign the Australia Act 1986 was passed eliminating many of the remaining opportunities for UK interference in Australian government. Appeals from Australian courts to British courts were abolished.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The Queen backed the right of Australians to become a fully independent nation during the referendum on an Australian republic in 1999, saying that she has "always made it clear that the future of the Monarchy in Australia is an issue for the Australian people and them alone to decide, by democratic and constitutional means.”</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">It’s appropriate that Australians now take some time to reflect on the life and contribution of Queen Elizabeth II and pay appropriate respect to that. We too as a campaign will be taking some time to acknowledge her contribution. It is unlikely Australia will ever have a monarch as respected or admired by the Australian people again.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The Australian Republic Movement has always campaigned for an Australian Head of State, chosen by Australians. The passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the inevitable succession of Charles as King of Australia means Australians have been denied that choice once again.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-77846923526202287352022-08-31T07:57:00.009+10:002022-08-31T08:01:55.373+10:00Australian republican Andrew Inglis Clark's tombstone at risk<p><b>Perhaps it’s now time for Hobart City Council to bring the headstone of the great Australian politician, electoral reformer, jurist and republican, Andrew Inglis Clark in off the footpath in Peel Street, Sandy Bay</b>.</p><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOZiR4sZNC1Q6dfmD6fD5fqWwXyo5YkYW28wJr9yOAEhFfX7wn7XtwLPnycFbgeNXlLhd562T3oOyRuAvT9yBSiQJiq8aEkaALuRvLKIWRISR4t93idjWjPMZNyDjZL8wFXxuX3w6SmGKGDuvUluDuxE06TBwm7ksUmHM9aUlk1p_M_pkkQ/s4032/IMG_1026.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOZiR4sZNC1Q6dfmD6fD5fqWwXyo5YkYW28wJr9yOAEhFfX7wn7XtwLPnycFbgeNXlLhd562T3oOyRuAvT9yBSiQJiq8aEkaALuRvLKIWRISR4t93idjWjPMZNyDjZL8wFXxuX3w6SmGKGDuvUluDuxE06TBwm7ksUmHM9aUlk1p_M_pkkQ/w200-h150/IMG_1026.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>Inglis Clark’s headstone was moved from the old Queenborough cemetery when the land was turned into housing to the newly created Queenborough Memorial Garden outside the housing development on the footpath.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Professor Henry Reynolds has argued that alone among the <span></span>Federation fathers Andrew Inglis Clark was a staunch republican. It was Inglis Clark who prepared the draft of the federal constitution presented at the 1891 National Australasian Convention.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNgJerFKPBCcLJnytyrZaXd7vwgLpCOaxkC2jTajUFjLwkV9nxyYA36qkI3dRXQvrjuTbzzWY1t3hKqDZTWdh4A07QIE2fPLFrSB9bkhUxCz_fklRIR7SFrJmThTzIyOHaSEHHwMsf-38UpWnp_MyPo7oZ7KjKjO2FOAQMVw6YMDagYZ-HQ/s4032/IMG_1047.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNgJerFKPBCcLJnytyrZaXd7vwgLpCOaxkC2jTajUFjLwkV9nxyYA36qkI3dRXQvrjuTbzzWY1t3hKqDZTWdh4A07QIE2fPLFrSB9bkhUxCz_fklRIR7SFrJmThTzIyOHaSEHHwMsf-38UpWnp_MyPo7oZ7KjKjO2FOAQMVw6YMDagYZ-HQ/w200-h150/IMG_1047.JPG" width="200" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">At the front of his historic home, Rosebank in Battery Point, Hobart there is a plaque acknowledging the significance of Inglis Clark in Tasmanian and Australian politics. However, a few blocks away, in shouting distance of the University of Tasmania where he was Vice-Chancellor during the first few years after federation, Inglis Clark’s headstone has been re-located to the footpath. </div></div><p></p><div dir="auto"><div class="d2hqwtrz r227ecj6 ez8dtbzv gt60zsk1" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_15z"><div class="alzwoclg cqf1kptm siwo0mpr gu5uzgus"><div class="jroqu855 nthtkgg5"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Andrew Inglis Clark’s wikipedia entry states he is buried in the old Queenborough Cemetery, Sandy Bay. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">This is not true. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">It no longer exists, and the headstones are now all relocated to the footpath which is called the Queenborough Memorial Garden. Perhaps it has only been luck that to date it hasn’t been picked up and removed on bin night. </div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Surely Hobart Council can do better than this.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R7S62Ham9wZ-vf4kTEAE7Ok8zwbolGW3UXkXcziMedAONXKg95UDUq-XGjzWWk5nST_7f1hdJIi7t5jL_OysK8g36gs_DFAlKATqk4ss0jkoEzUS1FS3AlpgsZ4orkOEXKlmV2gpk3G9kpg8Aw_BkgcT0mTxNSpUayJ_fARka9N9ZE8ODw/s1551/Peel%20Street%20headstone.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1551" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R7S62Ham9wZ-vf4kTEAE7Ok8zwbolGW3UXkXcziMedAONXKg95UDUq-XGjzWWk5nST_7f1hdJIi7t5jL_OysK8g36gs_DFAlKATqk4ss0jkoEzUS1FS3AlpgsZ4orkOEXKlmV2gpk3G9kpg8Aw_BkgcT0mTxNSpUayJ_fARka9N9ZE8ODw/w400-h219/Peel%20Street%20headstone.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-32467863912963926732022-06-30T23:38:00.002+10:002022-06-30T23:41:24.316+10:00Prince Charles gives blessing to an Australian republic<p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><b>Have
you seen the news? Prince Charles has made it clear – again – that
Australia has his blessing to take the step into independence.</b><br /><br />The
comments from Australia's future Head of State were made at the opening
of a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda.</span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span><a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/prince-charles-says-commonwealth-nations-free-to-chart-their-own-course/dawcw45l2?fbclid=IwAR3-t2fEUO01YITNX9XwCDv-XGaVtMf6Zn0M5ccye6BWXFAC9ffJRqj8mk4" target="_blank">Prince Charles says Commonwealth nations free to chart their own course</a> </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Only 15 of 54 nations in the Commonwealth, including the UK, still have the Queen as Head of State.<br /><br />Six
of those remaining 15 have announced plans to become a republic: these
are Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and
Saint Kitts and Nevis.<br /></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FaDsaWSqIGE" width="320" youtube-src-id="FaDsaWSqIGE"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-70351686732219272442022-05-26T13:59:00.009+10:002022-05-26T14:01:33.753+10:00You Don't Vote for Kings<p><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">I
love election days. Last Saturday was a Federal Election day in Australia. These days are a community event; a common, civic enterprise –
and one in which the majority of Australians are happy to participate,
even if it is compulsory. </span></span></b></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Rk4q5Ptp0bliL1EP8f7SF8AFzwRzzg6FaJGWVB4XKGIERmEi6aRd3TmsUt1ywC4Ozila7oXxQUfxldXvnx1a3CxWPbi5gjRZhr_ratZq5odvb58WKGZlS9rIdTN5WiwqPFKH1lsyGME913UiIozpnWQToTvtKBM6muGqQgoD9yWotukGXA/s719/Election%20Day%20-%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="719" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Rk4q5Ptp0bliL1EP8f7SF8AFzwRzzg6FaJGWVB4XKGIERmEi6aRd3TmsUt1ywC4Ozila7oXxQUfxldXvnx1a3CxWPbi5gjRZhr_ratZq5odvb58WKGZlS9rIdTN5WiwqPFKH1lsyGME913UiIozpnWQToTvtKBM6muGqQgoD9yWotukGXA/s320/Election%20Day%20-%202022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Then what’s with a non-elected Head of State?
As King Arthur said to Dennis the Peasant from <i>Monty Python</i>, "You don't vote for
Kings!</span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZtYU87QNjPw" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZtYU87QNjPw"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-84277003898154466672022-04-13T08:48:00.007+10:002022-04-13T08:54:59.534+10:00Commonwealth Day and the sound of silence<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> <!--[if !mso]>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>In 2019 I wrote about </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/commonwealth-day-and-the-sound-of-crickets,12497"><span>Commonwealth Day and the
sound of crickets</span></a><span>.
Three years later and there wasn’t even the continuing clicking of crickets on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day"><span>Commonwealth Day</span></a><span> – just silence. Reminds
me of the </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/australia-ignores-diamond-jubilee,3941"><span>total lack of celebrations</span></a><span> in Australia for the
Queen’s 2012 Diamond Jubilee</span><span>.</span> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWht37GcDN5Mn8nAlv_HhK3sWSF6ZA8wJgba0ABVrz5fE-F17wE4hU72ejxXxPGBXSCZFezJTCPAAf6NmTN7dMxrQc7h_9WxlQRccwDP3Xjimiu7kwDRSs6Rs_V4Du3xYX2NfnX11QtN8Ilzk1df1g5j82YgIDP6rYZJ85Jc8clyWK2naAg/s466/Commonwealth%20flag.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="466" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWht37GcDN5Mn8nAlv_HhK3sWSF6ZA8wJgba0ABVrz5fE-F17wE4hU72ejxXxPGBXSCZFezJTCPAAf6NmTN7dMxrQc7h_9WxlQRccwDP3Xjimiu7kwDRSs6Rs_V4Du3xYX2NfnX11QtN8Ilzk1df1g5j82YgIDP6rYZJ85Jc8clyWK2naAg/s320/Commonwealth%20flag.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In Australia there were public holidays on 14 March 2022 that coincided with <a href="https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/first-details-of-2022-commonwealth-day-events-revealed-171709/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2022
Commonwealth Day</span></a><span style="color: #212529; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, such as Canberra Day in the ACT</span><span>, Labour Day in Victoria,
Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, and Eight-hour Day in Tasmania. Nowhere in
any Australian media did there appear any discussion on Commonwealth Day. No crickets,
just silence!</span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Commonwealth Day</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is meant to be a day of
observance by approximately one billion people of their common bonds and the
contribution of the </span><a href="https://thecommonwealth.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Commonwealth of Nations</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to the
creation of a harmonious global environment. However, the only activity
connected to Commonwealth Day appears to be the British royal family </span><a href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/gallery/2019031170728/kate-middleton-meghan-markle-commonwealth-day-service/1/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">attending a church service</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Commonwealth Day
is marked by an </span><a href="https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/history/celebrating-the-commonwealth"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Anglican service</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Westminster Abbey</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> normally attended by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Queen Elizabeth II</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> as the Head of the Commonwealth, some of
the British royal family, and Commonwealth ambassadors. </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhct93jfLh-8gwR2taRkTnXDWh7PrCxnA-J7I2kXdX2slyRQKUeMJ3Acv6Uaf0qUF-WrW9Z8qO6fDM8LVkVdq8sGOTqO9QdtWyt-6q1yCcCPv8ik8t_VDEUFlVQCtwMDEQuliBisUxuVbmpf-KNPSKBbBe1cmoda5kQnVBsTfGE7dk6tdSk4w/s800/article-12497-hero.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="800" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhct93jfLh-8gwR2taRkTnXDWh7PrCxnA-J7I2kXdX2slyRQKUeMJ3Acv6Uaf0qUF-WrW9Z8qO6fDM8LVkVdq8sGOTqO9QdtWyt-6q1yCcCPv8ik8t_VDEUFlVQCtwMDEQuliBisUxuVbmpf-KNPSKBbBe1cmoda5kQnVBsTfGE7dk6tdSk4w/s320/article-12497-hero.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The </span><a href="https://www.royal.uk/commonwealth-day-2020"><span>2020 Commonwealth Day Service</span></a><span> was famously the last official
public event for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex"><span>Prince Harry</span></a><span> before leaving Britain
for North America to take his journey towards his desired financial
independence. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Queen
Elizabeth II </span><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-12/queen-elizabeth-to-miss-commonwealth-service/100905074?fbclid=IwAR3L5D7JeNZCxKUPdZVmgyt0rToHMXBDAgHbcMMtHcxReZCdKtN64mL6zm0"><span>missed</span></a><span> the Commonwealth Day annual
service this year at Westminster Abbey for the Commonwealth of 54 nations which
</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-queens-real-birthday--time-to-talk-succession-planning,11421"><span>she heads</span></a><span>. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales"><span>Prince Charles</span></a><span> stepped in to act in her
place.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Following the death of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria"><span>Queen Victoria</span></a><span>
on 22 January 1901, there was a call to remember her long reign. On </span><a href="https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/magazine/onthisday/24-may-empire-day"><span>24<sup>th</sup> May each year</span></a><span>, Queen Victoria’s birthday, an annual
commemoration was held from 1902 to commemorate the formation of the British
Empire in India and other colonies of Britain. Empire Day was directed
especially at school children to promote loyalty among the dominion countries
of the British Empire. Empire Day, often called Cracker Night, was celebrated
by lighting fire-works in back-gardens and attending community bonfires. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>With the
surge for independence from the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire"><span>British Empire in</span></a><span> the late 1950s, the
British prime minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan"><span>Harold MacMillan</span></a><span> announced in 1958 that
Empire Day would be changed to Commonwealth Day as the annual celebration of
the Commonwealth of Nations.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The date of Commonwealth Day was changed to 10<sup>th</sup>
June, to match with the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. However, it
was again switched in 1977 to the second Monday in March </span><span>as no Commonwealth country
had a public holiday on that day and almost all countries had school terms.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>In 2022,
Queen Elizabeth II is going platinum, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjs6quPhYf3AhUfRmwGHSrmDagQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplatinumjubilee.gov.uk%2F&usg=AOvVaw3SRNfyQl18iNrmKF-0Eiow"><span>celebrating</span></a><span> her 70<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of ascension to the British throne. </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In an
effort to </span><a href="https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/2022/03/17/prince-william-kate-caribbean/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020220318_With%20Tag"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">save the Commonwealth</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> as an institution identified
with British royalty, the working royals are being sent to the far-flung parts
of the old British Empire to shore up the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s
Platinum Jubilee. </span><span>However,
t<span class="style-scope">he British royal family are having a staff shortage.
Harry, Meghan and Andrew are out, Philip has died, and the Queen has been
forced to take it easy. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4uDxQZ-1lx8" width="320" youtube-src-id="4uDxQZ-1lx8"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span>“Will the British Royal Family Survive?" </span></b><span> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">First through airport gates was </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William,_Duke_of_Cambridge"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Prince William</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> and his wife Kate, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine,_Duchess_of_Cambridge"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Duchess of Cambridge</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> who headed back to the Caribbean
on a whirl-wind tour to Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas from 19-26 March 2022 to
mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. This was five months after </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjhtLCTiof3AhVjSmwGHbQEApUQFnoECEIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2F2021%2F11%2F29%2Fbarbados-republic-queen%2F&usg=AOvVaw0RTmzDhKWRyhpLMUouXky-"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Barbados declared itself a republic</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The seven-day
tour plunged into controversy on several occasions. During the visits to
Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas the couple made significant changes to their
itinerary as </span><a href="https://www.marieclaire.com.au/kate-middleton-prince-william-caribbean-tour-controversy"><span>backlash grew</span></a><span> from locals who
referenced the tour as a colonialist "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">slap
in the face</i>". </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The three
day visit to Jamaica was marred by </span><a href="https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaicans_shun_UK_royal_visit,_demand_slavery_reparations?profile=1606&fbclid=IwAR1tKzc2Jbfa1AiXTe3Z9oJomopa6P5sKdI2nTBOjKZrkipJlHo7PkLPKpo"><span>Britain’s role</span></a><span> in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade"><span>transatlantic slave trade</span></a><span>. The couple’s visit to
the country gave the nation the opportunity to address ‘unresolved’ issues. <span class="style-scope">Jamaica’s prime minister, </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Holness"><span>Andrew Holness</span></a><span class="style-scope"><span>
told the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge that his country is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moving on’</i>, intending to </span></span><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/kate-middleton-and-prince-william-jamaica-republic-plans"><span>become a republic</span></a><span class="style-scope"><span>.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yeWaax8EtE8" width="320" youtube-src-id="yeWaax8EtE8"></iframe></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>After the
decision by Barbados to remove the Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State, Prime
Minister Holness </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/mar/23/jamaican-pm-tells-kate-and-william-his-country-is-moving-on-to-become-republic-video"><span>said</span></a><span> in December that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">there is no question that Jamaica has to
become a republic</i>’. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In the middle of overwhelming floods and skyrocketing
COVID cases, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Princess Anne</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">, 17<sup>th</sup> in line of succession
to the British throne, jetted into Sydney on 9 April 2022 for a three-day visit
to </span><a href="https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/nsw/princess-anne-opens-the-royal-easter-show-in-sydney/news-story/c3c61d9538e3b217e2eadfd0e449cb4f"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">open</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> the Bicentennial </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Royal_Easter_Show"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sydney
Royal Easter Show</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">. As well as being patron of the Royal
Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth, she is also president of the Royal
Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth. Princess Anne followed the Australian
visit with a whirlwind </span><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1593502/Princess-Anne-news-Royal-Family-tour-visits-Australia-Papua-New-Guinea-Sir-Tim-Laurence"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">tour of Papua New Guinea</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> from 11 -13 April 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Also, from 22-28 April 2022, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward,_Earl_of_Wessex"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Prince Edward</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> and wife Sophie, the Earl and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie,_Countess_of_Wessex"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Countess
of Wessex</span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> were slated to travel to Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada,
St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. However, </span><span style="color: #31373b; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">there are leading politicians in St Lucia and St Vincent and the
Grenadines also </span><a href="https://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/former-prime-minister-urges-st-lucia-to-move-towards-republican-status/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">pushing
for republics</span></a><span style="color: #31373b; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> in the Caribbean. It seems
unlikely any Caribbean country will have the British monarch as Head of State
by the end of this decade.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The
Commonwealth of Nations is not a supranational body. It stopped being a
military alliance when Britain turned its back on Australia with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore"><span>Fall of Singapore</span></a><span> in 1942, and stopped
being a trade alliance in 1973 when Britain became a member of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community"><span>European Common Market</span></a><span> and turned its back on
Australian producers. Instead, it is a group of organisations, often referred
to as the Commonwealth ‘family’. However, most of the organisations that exist
appear to ostensibly promote the Commonwealth focus on the British royal family
and the monarchy. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The
Commonwealth’s greatest challenge is that it is closely associated with the British
royal family, who use the organisation as a way of trying to project themselves
as part of Britain’s ‘soft power’ in the world.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Queen Elizabeth
II has been Head of the Commonwealth since she </span><a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/70-years-the-queens-role-in-the-commonwealth/"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">assumed the position</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> in 1953. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2018, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CHOGM</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> meeting </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-queens-real-birthday--time-to-talk-succession-planning,11421"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">voted</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> to appoint Prince Charles as the next Head of the
Commonwealth and </span><span>succeed
the Queen in the honorary, non-hereditary position as Head of the Commonwealth.
The British royals continue to insist the Commonwealth is about them, Britain
and their dream of empire.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>It’s time
the British royal family disconnects from the Commonwealth of Nations.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FwVqFSCByvs" width="320" youtube-src-id="FwVqFSCByvs"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span>“Why the Commonwealth should ditch the
royals”</span></b></span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The backlash
received by Prince William, and the Duchess of Cambridge during the Carribean royal
tour during March 2022 has led to growing speculation as to whether more of the
15 Commonwealth realms may soon seek to become a republic. As he was about to
board his flight back to Britain after the disastrous tour, Prince William </span><a href="https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/prince-william-suggests-he-may-not-become-king-of-the-commonwealth-20220327-p5a8ak.html?fbclid=IwAR1qA3wQzvthvYH4N4fNQD_-DZuuMtOgDgsMOjH60nLHr_g_XQNLraPyNPY"><span>said</span></a><span>:</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he understood he may never succeed the Queen
and the Prince of Wales as head of the Commonwealth, as he vowed not to be
“telling people what to do” amid growing republican sentiment throughout the
former British Empire</i>.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The example
of the transition of Barbados to a parliamentary republic on 30 November 2021
could spark the ‘New Commonwealth’ dominoes to fall. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Barbados demonstrated clearly that the </span><a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/as-barbados-celebrates-becoming-a-republic-this-is-what-it-means-for-australia/eo2m0jqnb"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">transition to a republic</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> does not mean leaving the Commonwealth. They didn’t even
have to apply to re-join as their membership just automatically rolled over.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The majority
of Commonwealth countries are republics, with over 90% of Commonwealth citizens
living in republics. It’s time Head of the Commonwealth is rotated among
Commonwealth leaders. Each country should take its turn to head the
Commonwealth, not the Queen and the British royal family. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australia's lack of
interest in Commonwealth Day reflects our desire to break from the British royals
and become a republic. </span><span>Perhaps
the reason for the aching silence is the utter irrelevancy of the institution
of monarchy in the daily lives of Australians, and arguably all other member
nations of the Commonwealth.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">All this discussion brings up
the issue of an absent Head of State — bring on a resident for president!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z3w5gVM_4y8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Z3w5gVM_4y8"></iframe></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“I
want to break free”</span></b></span></span>
</p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-54509222311598557542022-02-28T00:08:00.002+10:002022-02-28T00:08:31.300+10:00Time to replace the British royals<p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Australian
life has been undergoing processes of change for a long time - 56 years
ago today, decimal currency replaced Imperial pounds, shillings and
pence in Australian commerce. Four years after that, we replaced
Imperial measurement with the metric system. We look forward to the day
we replace a British royal with an Australian as our Head of State.</span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZTeWLA1LAs" width="320" youtube-src-id="5ZTeWLA1LAs"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><br /></span></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-57607207265473962262022-01-13T09:36:00.017+10:002022-01-13T10:09:28.114+10:00Let’s vote for an Australian Republic - the Australian Choice model<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><!--[if !mso]>
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<![endif]--></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The Australian Republic Movement unveiled at the
Federation Pavilion in Sydney’s Centennial Park on Wednesday 12 January 2022, its
model for an Australian republic, including the preferred method for the nation
to vote for our own Aussie Head of State. </span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Queen Elizabeth II’s</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> reign nearing its end, the </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://republic.org.au/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australian Republic Movement</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
has developed a new model to unite Australia in becoming a republic.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAXT02bAttQTr4Co-B4RqiXadPODtLgdiq3lw2g3v7eayZQGcWWHTQGhgeIEXT5Km7z09fjsCIE4tZDL0rIessZIXxNpmsztEnesB2uyLQPz1FsMzmK82iI6NRLk3ZvIvKwq1KxCbOrJ5ySb3YROuHck59ilgGrAo5tR5bwN3WZgc3rCzjtg=s157" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="157" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAXT02bAttQTr4Co-B4RqiXadPODtLgdiq3lw2g3v7eayZQGcWWHTQGhgeIEXT5Km7z09fjsCIE4tZDL0rIessZIXxNpmsztEnesB2uyLQPz1FsMzmK82iI6NRLk3ZvIvKwq1KxCbOrJ5ySb3YROuHck59ilgGrAo5tR5bwN3WZgc3rCzjtg=w132-h99" width="132" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Federation Pavilion</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Buckingham Palace is now making
preparations for the end of the Queen’s reign. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Prince Charles</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
is reportedly </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/04/prince-charles-consort-queen-elizabeth-state-opening-parliament-prince-philip-death#:~:text=Royals-,Prince%20Charles%20Is%20Reportedly%20Taking%20on%20More%20Royal%20Duties%20Alongside,more%20significant%20and%20active%20role.%E2%80%9D&text=Charles%20will%20be%20at%20the%20forefront%20of%20those%20efforts%20as%20heir.%E2%80%9D"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">taking on</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
a number of responsibilities for The Queen, as heir to the British throne.
Australia has been preparing too, including working towards the reforms needed
for Australia to become a republic.</span>
</p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In January 2020, the ARM adopted a
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/australian-republic-movement-on-track-for-reform,15270"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">new strategic approach</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
to building public consensus about the reforms that should be taken to a
referendum. This involved extensive public consultation, public opinion
research and consultation with academics and parliamentarians about the way
forward continued throughout 2020 and 2021.</span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The primary barrier to Australia
becoming a republic is not the British Monarchy, but uncertainty. To win that
change, a referendum on the republic must achieve a double majority; a majority
of votes nationally and a majority in four out of six states. So, any
proposition for a republic must be capable of securing majority support in
advance of any referendum campaign.</span>
</p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Australian republic has been
our nation’s </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/our-great-unfinished-project-the-australian-republic,11670"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">great unfinished project</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.
The unveiling by the </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://republic.org.au"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australian
Republic Movement</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> of a model for all Australians to
get behind is a leap towards creating our own independent nation. </span></p><p><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ox5CATFoR2k" width="320" youtube-src-id="ox5CATFoR2k"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It has been
clear for decades that Australians want the final say about who our Head of
State is.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/an-australian-republic-revisiting-the-1998-constitutional-convention,11199"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1998 Constitutional Convention</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> held in Old
Parliament House, Canberra from 2-13 February 1998 had been given the brief to
consider the pros and cons of removing the Monarchy from a role in Australian
government and law and changing the Australian Constitution to include a
republican form of government.</span>
</p><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Constitutional Convention was convened by former Prime Minister </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/howard/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">John Howard</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> to discuss
issues related to three broad questions about whether or not Australia should
become a republic. The three questions identified for discussion by the Prime
Minister were:</span>
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consider, against the status quo; and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In what time frame and under what circumstances might any change be
considered.</span></li></ol>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If the consensus
was "Yes", then a republican model was to be decided on, so it could
be put to the Australian people in a referendum on 6 November 1999. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/CIB/CIB9798/98cib11"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">four models</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> that emerged
were:</span>
</p><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Direct Election Model where the popular election for president
would be held at the same time as those for the house of representatives.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Hayden Model proposed the popular election for president where
a person had been nominated by one per cent of voters.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The McGarvie Model proposed the president be chosen by the
prime minister and appointed or dismissed by a constitutional
council.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Bi-Partisan Appointment of the President Model developed by the
Australian Republican Movement, where the president was appointed by the
prime minister after ratification by a 2/3 majority of Federal Parliament.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">However, the </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Constitutional_Convention_1998"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1998 Constitutional Convention</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> became caught
up in an argument about the best selection method for the Australian Head of
State and it was on this crucial issue </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/lets-start-talking-about-republic-models,11434"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australian republicans divided</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, resulting in
the splitting of the vote at the 1999 republic referendum and the loss of the
vote.</span></p><div><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/speech-to-australian-republican-movements-25th-anniversary-dinner"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">said</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> during his
speech to the Australian Republic Movement’s (ARM) 25th Anniversary Dinner on
18 December 2016:</span>
</p><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“So, if the job
description is to be a non-political head of state, the best way to appoint
them we felt at the time, was in a bipartisan manner. This exposed us of course
to the claim that the ARM model was “a politician’s republic. We were told that
you can’t trust politicians — ironically most vocally by politicians.”</span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KbFhRT53CfY" width="320" youtube-src-id="KbFhRT53CfY"></iframe></div> <span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The ARM model, aptly named the </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://republic.org.au/policy?fbclid=IwAR2lLMtdH7xHJt1dpCDq11MMh89iys1Gzmri6CEJVYl8lpqJETV8BD6c19M"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australian Choice</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">model<i>, </i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">proposes that Australia’s parliaments nominate
candidates for Head of State, who would be put to a national ballot of all
Australian voters. The Head of State would be elected for a five-year term and
be responsible for appointing as Prime Minister the person who has majority
support in the House of Representatives, or calling an election if no-one can
obtain that support. The Head of State would have no individual authority in
relation to the setting of government policy, day-to-day governance or passing
of laws, which remains the responsibility of the parliament, Prime Minister and
Cabinet. </span>
<p></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ARM National Chair, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/peter-fitzsimons-to-reboot-the-republic,7988"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Peter FitzSimons</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7578185/new-australian-republic-plan-unveiled/?fbclid=IwAR0w_06zTBo44i53hKSFtaBTuI8DVFs8PRriAGLXo_R6JXMM69XYjig5rY0"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">says</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
the ‘Australian Choice’ model means citizens elect their own leaders. To ensure
that there is manageable choice between our most respected and trusted
citizens, Australia’s parliaments will nominate a short list of up to 11
candidates – one from each state and territory parliament and up to three by
the Federal Parliament. This will ensure strong representation from across the
country and a genuine choice. Sitting parliamentarians will be prohibited from
standing for election.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Head of State would be responsible for appointing as Prime Minister
the person who has majority support in the House of Representatives, ensuring
that the commission of a Prime Minister ends if another person commands that
support, or calling an election if no-one can obtain that support. The Head of
State will not have the power to dismiss a Prime Minister who retains majority
support in the House of Representatives, but would have the power to summon the
House of Representatives to determine if the Prime Minister retains that
support. They will act on the advice of Government on all other matters.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ARM National Chair Peter FitzSimons </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://republic.org.au/media/2022/1/12/an-australian-choice-for-australians"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">said that</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Australian Choice</i> model ensures
Australians will have a robust choice from eminently qualified, suitable
candidates to represent them as Head of State. </span>
</p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We’ve
consulted, we’ve listened closely and Australians have told us this approach
will give our nation the best chance of success at a referendum, with an
overwhelming majority of Australians likely to back the change</i>.</span>
</p><p class="Default" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This will give
all Australian voters a merit-based choice about who speaks for them as Head of
State. The decision will be in their hands, unlike now, where it is luck of the
draw who we get from the British Royal Family.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I would like to thank
both the thousands upon thousands of Australians who shared their views with us
so we could take this historic step forward, and the constitutional experts who
helped us refine it</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QHHPS2gYMcc" width="320" youtube-src-id="QHHPS2gYMcc"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The dreams of
Australia’s republic supporters lay in tatters with the failure of the 6
November 1999 Referendum. On that evening, the then ARM National Chair, Malcolm
Turnbull, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lg_laNhf_M"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">said</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Prime Minister </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">John Howard</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> "broke
this nation’s heart" over the failed Republic Referendum result.</span> </div><div><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 1999, the
band </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powderfinger"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Powderfinger</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/powderfinger/these+days_20110394.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">told us</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> how:</span>
</p><p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"These days
turned out nothing like I had planned"</span></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">but continued a
few lines later that<em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"it’s
coming round again, the slowly creeping hand of time"</span></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Australian
Republic will happen — we are a republican people, it’s now a matter of making
us a republican nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7XaSm9-r_4U" width="320" youtube-src-id="7XaSm9-r_4U"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australian Choice</span></em> Model is time for republicans to start
“mending our hearts”. For the first time in over twenty years it delivers a
genuine choice of Australia’s most respected and trusted citizens so that all
the Australian people can vote in a Head of State who represents us all. </span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the first time, Australians – <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">all </span></em>Australians – will have a say in
who represents us as Head of State.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Choosing an Australian Republic is about choosing to take our own affairs
into our own hands. With an Australian Head of State chosen by all of us, our
future, more than ever will be in Australian hands.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We can take it from here.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Find out more: </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.republic.org.au%2Fpolicy%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2lLMtdH7xHJt1dpCDq11MMh89iys1Gzmri6CEJVYl8lpqJETV8BD6c19M&h=AT1528CGeHyWs0UZDaem-NaBCoZK5ViFB21dBBwXHnFODL5WjFPnIb2VIgWGPnEARcC4EzPDv19_iFqb3u0CBlcR6SzmHXZbY49u8_GjDZqWJTI2XU7qGNM4n3FK6svDXFml&__tn__=-UK*F&c%5b0%5d=AT3QuKn4c8JAdI3tX4Hr7gq-Bisa5_ooZAOGXU8o6Cvijz9ZxZrAjMZdoVP-5ksAENmwWTlbMiWpQ1hTJrx1GCbKQifgnvFrSuevQQf7zSOPhnZtovRbKbQWhFq6G7bhljVJZPGHAPk3_6amEtTQqlwi14pVszy1J6VNbeVrNnUnbc53gEfxgeipvKC0jCPctc2nxYpTp6zBdSI3OQEFI3-1ZecZ7VaiHf4hcxi0xS8" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">www.republic.org.au/policy</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0yNX2dQuIgM" width="320" youtube-src-id="0yNX2dQuIgM"></iframe></div><br /><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></span>
<p></p><p></p></div>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-5648630109651302982021-11-11T22:16:00.005+10:002021-11-11T22:26:14.354+10:00November is time for remembering the Australian republic<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">November is always a time of remembering. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is when you reflect upon the year, do annual
reviews, weigh up what’s been achieved and what hasn’t, and set targets and
goals for the coming year. It is also Australia’s season for remembering
efforts to bring about an Australian republic</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">.</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkgAnyO5TtuhPJ4KyAl4o8HLyRl2oC6-8V-0JH8ooUAU-NFbfCmwji67ZjnIpogruoGowZEe2vnwkJtLIQMFUdLnlbHZ6LrzTvwzmFs16MBrZfg_Pm5-19aHaUVBXeaRKm_kC/s486/Gough+Whitlam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="486" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkgAnyO5TtuhPJ4KyAl4o8HLyRl2oC6-8V-0JH8ooUAU-NFbfCmwji67ZjnIpogruoGowZEe2vnwkJtLIQMFUdLnlbHZ6LrzTvwzmFs16MBrZfg_Pm5-19aHaUVBXeaRKm_kC/w200-h155/Gough+Whitlam.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Each year on 11 November since 1919 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Remembrance Day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">
has been held to remember the Armistice of the Great War. This has set the tone
for November as a time to reflect and remember. However, there were annual
events before the establishment of Remembrance Day that tapped into this
reflective time of the year.</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The </span><a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/10/31/all_saints_day,_november_1,_2017/1346206"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Feast
of Saints</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> is held at the beginning of November and is now widely observed across
the world to remember those recognised as today’s saints — known or unknown,
mighty or lowly. This is followed on 2<sup>nd</sup> November by All Souls’ Day,
an official holiday in the Catholic ecclesiastical calendar. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Also known as the Commemoration of the
Dearly Departed and the Day of the Dead, All Souls’ Day is generally a day of
remembrance, when prayers are said for the souls of those who have passed on. Around
the world All Souls’ Day often involves visiting cemeteries where loved ones
are buried, and tending to their graves. Attending a mass or church service,
praying and eating particular foods are all part of these observations.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">This is followed on the 5<sup>th</sup>
November with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Guy Fawkes Night</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">, which remembers the survival of </span><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">James I</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> from </span><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Guy Fawkes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">’ assassination plot when he attempted to
blow up the House of Lords in 1605:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Remember,
remember!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>The fifth of November,</i><br />
<i>The Gunpowder treason and plot;</i><br />
<i>know of no reason</i><br />
<i>Why the Gunpowder treason</i><br />
<i>Should ever be forgot!</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was
Bonfire Night, or cracker night, which marked the anniversary of the </span><a href="https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/bonfire-night-a-400-year-old-political-hot-potato/?fbclid=IwAR28mgUZpRbfa-s7_D9oOrT0jioE7XD-gVsGmEh2IOShXkPZkdDLrMgmDog"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">failure of the Gunpowder
Plot</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
In Australia, the republican season includes the anniversary of the 6<sup>th</sup>
November </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_republic_referendum,_1999" target="_blank"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1999 republic referendum</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the 3<sup>rd</sup> November 1997
anniversary of the voluntary postal election for the 1998 Constitutional
Convention, as well as the anniversary of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=The+Dismissal" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">dismissal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> on 11<sup>th</sup> November
1975 by then Governor-General John Kerr. The latter event remains the most
dramatic event in Australia’s political history and began the modern republican
movement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SXq056TJhU4" width="320" youtube-src-id="SXq056TJhU4"></iframe></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
Recently there have been </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/volcanic-evidence-of-queens-involvement-in-the-1975-dismissal-uncovered-20171015-gz18zd.html"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">claims</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> the British monarch was</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-royal-green-light-behind-the-dismissal-of-the-whitlam-government,10852"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> involved</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in Australia’s 1975
constitutional crisis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-palace-letters-professor-jenny-hocking/book/9781922310248.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk43RoLyD7wIVs51LBR1VQwwBEAQYASABEgJAjPD_BwE" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The Palace Letters</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> – </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The Queen, the Governor-General and the plot to
dismiss Gough Whitlam – is the groundbreaking result of historian
Professor</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/jenny-hocking,951" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> Jenny Hocking</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">’s fight to expose </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_letters" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">secret letters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> between the Queen and the Australian
Governor-General during the </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=The+Dismissal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Dismissal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> of Gough Whitlam in 1975.</span>
</p><p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">In this gripping and true court drama,
Professor Jenny Hocking describes her years-long </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/high-court-ruling-on-the-palace-letters-could-bear-explosive-consequences,13945" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">legal battle</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> to uncover letters between </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Queen Elizabeth II</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Sir John Kerr</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> in which the two discussed the 1975
Dismissal of the </span><a href="http://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers/gough-whitlam" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Whitlam Government</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">. Hocking also provides a piercing analysis
of both the extreme efforts made to stop her and what the letters
themselves revealed.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The Palace Letters</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> show it is absurd how an Australian
governor-general reports to Buckingham Palace in a manner not much different
from that of a 19th-century colonial governor. Australia’s head of state should
be one of us.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><br />
But as Australian Republic Movement National Chair Peter FitzSimons </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/monarchists-cant-pretend-the-royals-are-just-a-symbol-now-20171016-gz1p8o.html"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Nothing
has changed since 1975 to stop this happening again. And next time,
it might not be an adviser to Queen Elizabeth having these kinds of secret
meetings on Australia’s internal affairs, but a courtier of none other than
King Charles</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Early
November also sees the anniversaries of the </span><a href="http://theconversation.com/booing-at-a-memorial-politeness-and-political-ritual-33995"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">2014
memorial</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (1971-1975), as well as the 12<sup>th</sup> November
eulogy delivered for </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/george-winterton-republican-pathfinder,3120"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Professor
George Winterton</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">George Winterton
was a first-rank constitutional scholar and pioneer of the modern republican
debate. He spent most of his career at the University of New South Wales, was a
prominent republican scholar and writer, a member of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Advisory_Committee" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Republic Advisory
Committee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
in the mid-1990's and a key delegate to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Constitutional_Convention_1998" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1998
Constitutional Convention</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> that crafted the minimalist republic model rejected in the
1999 referendum. More than anyone else, he produced the model that went to the
people in the </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=1999+republic+referendum" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1999
republic referendum</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In early November 2015, the first significant policy change for the new
Turnbull Government was to call it a ‘knight’ on titles. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The formal removal by
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of one of the previous Prime Minister Tony
Abbott’s most unpopular “</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/prince-philip-passes-away-years-after-australian-knighting-controversy,14977"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">captain’s picks</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">” resolved a national
embarrassment. Turnbull confirmed there would be no more anachronistic
Australian knights and dames. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Australia’s
‘knightmare’ was finally over. In abolishing the titles of Knight and Dame from
the Order of Australia awards, Turnbull helped the growth of the movement for
an Australian republic.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Republicanism
emerged as an issue of major public debate during the 1990s. Australians have </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/a-short-history-of-australian-republicanism,3513"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">long
discussed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
the idea of replacing the constitutional monarchy with a republican
constitution, even during the 19<sup>th</sup> century, before Federation in
1901. In the 1960s, </span><a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/geoffrey-dutton-donald-horne-and-the-revitalisation-of-australian-republican-ideals,3319"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">republican
activity was restarted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by authors </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Geoffrey+Dutton" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Geoffrey
Dutton</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Horne" target="_blank"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Donald
Horne</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">. At
the same time, the student magazine </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_%28magazine%29" target="_blank"><i><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oz</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> lampooned the monarchy. A
decade on, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">the
dismissal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
of Prime Minister </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Gough+Whitlam" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gough
Whitlam</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
by the appointed Governor-General on 11 November 1975 outraged many
Australians.<br />
<br />
The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" target="_blank"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1975 Constitutional Crisis</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> drew attention to Australia's constitutional
arrangements and, since those turbulent days, several notable Australians have
declared a commitment to an Australian republic. There were many Town Hall
meetings and calls to "maintain the rage". During these years,
the Australian Labor Party edged towards declaring itself for the republic.
This it </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/1981-the-republic-and-the-wedding,3561"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">eventually
did</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in
1982.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 6<sup>th</sup>
November 1999, t</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">he then national
chairperson of the Australian Republic Movement, Malcolm Turnbull pinned the
1999 referendum’s defeat squarely on the Prime Minister, John Howard, when </span><a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CuCZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=History+will+remember+him+for+one+thing.+He+was+the+Prime+Minister+who+broke+the+nation%E2%80%99s+heart&source=bl&ots=T2_nPiavME&sig=IDAFMV6xiLSoGv6gUo08fXr5hxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBGoVChMI7cjgi_aFyQIVSexjCh2qaAuw#v=onepage&q=History%20will%20remember%20him%20for%20one%20thing.%20He%20was%20the%20Prime%20Minister%20who%20broke%20the%20nation%E2%80%99s%20heart&f=false"><span lang="EN" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0054a6; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">he said</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“<i>History will
remember him for one thing. He was the Prime Minister who broke the nation’s
heart</i>.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">With Queen
Elizabeth II recent </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/with-the-95-year-old-queen-told-to-rest-the-question-arises-what-would-life-be-like-without-her-171105?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%204%202021%20-%202104820826&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%204%202021%20-%202104820826+CID_95db5f952068952e01186a1bac6dbaef&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=With%20the%2095-year-old%20queen%20told%20to%20rest%20the%20question%20arises%20what%20would%20life%20be%20like%20without%20her"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">health queries</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">, there has been
reflection on what Australia might look like without her as Australia’s Head of
State. Of course, the next step is to imagine what Australia would look like
without a monarchy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Australians
need a Head of State of our own, someone who can lead the dignified part of our
national life away from the day to day screaming match of Federal Parliament
and <i>Q&A</i>.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Last weekend’s conference of the
New Zealand Labour Party debated a proposal to start the discussion on a
republic, with a New Zealand citizen as head of state, with Te Tiriti o
Waitangi “as its foundation.” Lewis Holden, campaign chair of New Zealand
Republic, Kia Mana Motuhake a Aotearoa </span><a href="http://www.republic.org.nz/latestblog/2021/11/06/mediareleaselabour"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">stated</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This korero could not be more timely</i>”. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">It may be that </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: DengXian; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/dont-let-the-kiwis-beat-us-to-an-australian-republic,5871"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">New Zealand
becomes a republic before us</span></a></span></p>Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-8574835911762553082021-10-04T10:17:00.013+10:002021-10-10T15:31:11.248+10:00Queen’s Birthday – a public holiday without meaning<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queenslanders took the day off work today, not in recognition of their
hard work, but to recognise a monarch who will most likely be sleeping through
the public holiday held in her name</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/glenn-davies,14"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australians love
their public holidays even if the reason for the occasion is a little vague.
For goodness sake, we even have a public holiday in Melbourne for a horse race
and in Brisbane for an agricultural show. Nevertheless, the purpose for the Queen’s
Birthday public holiday is the most vague of them all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But where are the
community events with Queenslanders feasting on finger sandwiches, washed down
with a pot of Earl Grey tea, followed in the afternoon with re-watching <i>The
Crown</i>. The lack of any public activity around the </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.royal.uk/queens-official-birthday"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen’s Birthday</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> public holiday shows how the concept
of monarchy is out-of-step with contemporary Australia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXcqxfA8C0U" width="320" youtube-src-id="EXcqxfA8C0U"></iframe></div><br /><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Queen’s official
website </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.royal.uk/queens-official-birthday"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">didn’t rate a mention</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of the Queen’s Birthday celebration in
Queensland. So, on the day more than 5.1 million Queenslanders acknowledge the
‘Birthday of the Sovereign’, the Queen and Buckingham Palace appear not to be
aware about it at all. Despite an entire day being set aside in honour of Queen
Elizabeth II, Queensland’s tribute – the state named in honour of her
great-great-grandmother – seems to have gone entirely unnoticed.</span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has always seemed
absurd that Australians acknowledge the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II at a
completely different time to her actual birthday. Around Australia in 2021, the
Queen’s Birthday public holiday was held on the second Monday in June — except
in WA on Monday, 29 September and in Queensland on Monday, 4 October.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen Elizabeth II
turned 95 on Monday, 21 April 2021. You have to wonder when will she be allowed
to put up her feet? Most 95-year-olds are long retired, but not that
trouper the Queen. My grandmother will be 96 later this year. She’s a
hardy soul, but there’s no way she would be up to the frantic pace needed to be
a world leader. Even though retirement plans for many people keep going further
and further beyond 60, Queen Elizabeth II has still well and truly exceeded
this. Prince Philip was able to officially retire in August 2017 at 96 after
his dramatic announcement of his intention to retire from active royal duties
in May 2018. So surely it’s time for the British monarch to step down and start
having afternoon naps.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Surely, this must be
the most irrelevant and outdated of all public holidays? Although the Queen’s
Birthday public holiday is observed as a mark of respect to the Sovereign,
there are never any public celebrations or community engagement around it
whatsoever. The Queen’s Birthday holidays don’t remind us of anything good
about our country. At worst, they tell us Australia’s head of state gets the
job by inheritance and that Australians are subjects of a foreign crown — the
opposite of democracy and liberty. The lack of any public activity in Australia
around the Queen’s Birthday holiday is a clear example of how much the entire
concept of monarchy is out-of-step with contemporary Australia. It appears
Australians will turn out and show respect to the Queen when she is here but
when she is not, then the concept of monarchy becomes irrelevant.
Australians may like the celebrity surrounding the monarch and the royal family
when they visit Australia but are then totally uninterested in any form of
royal celebration when the “party girl” is not here. You can’t have a
party without the “party girl” — which brings up the issue of an absent
head of state.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgCaH9HLQcgeokpE-5XauBOdqipg0CxneTjMxcSTiAAaQRSdtpeCIn_ckdKo1IdtqJj2D9C6YxrGgDq-xLhEf3vtJXyo2mysH0p1x55P7XewvTiZxCrGzHYg-k8w040lyWLlx/s403/queens-birthday.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="271" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgCaH9HLQcgeokpE-5XauBOdqipg0CxneTjMxcSTiAAaQRSdtpeCIn_ckdKo1IdtqJj2D9C6YxrGgDq-xLhEf3vtJXyo2mysH0p1x55P7XewvTiZxCrGzHYg-k8w040lyWLlx/s320/queens-birthday.jpg" width="215" /></a></div>We have our own
identity as Australians. The Royals represent Britain, but cannot represent us
or unite us as Australians. Australians believe in freedom and equal
opportunity, not that some are born to rule over others. Monarchists can
prattle on endlessly about how retaining the monarchy brings stability and is
cheaper than having a homegrown head of state and the like. But when you boil
it all down, you can’t escape the fact there’s something a little unnatural
about a grown child of, shall we say, 230 years, still electing to live in
mummy’s back bedroom.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is a disgraceful
fact that without constitutional change the citizens of Australia will not
even be consulted on our next head of state. Since his birth, Prince Charles
has known he will take over the top job. One morning we will simply wake up to
hear news from England that will change our country for decades to come.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deciding to pack our
bags and finally leave our Buckingham Palace nursery room isn’t being rude to
the Queen. It’s just the natural order of things and the Queen has
reportedly acknowledged as much to past prime ministers. We can have respect
and affection for Britain and its celebrity royals but still question why
we do not have our own head of state. The royals are welcome to visit as
representatives of Britain, but I look forward to when the British people and
their royal family will welcome a visit by the first Australian head of state.</span></p>
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tours must we endure with the Barmy Army taunting us with their song, <i>‘God
Save Your Queen’</i>? Time to cut the apron strings, assert our
independence and let one of our own people serve as Australian Head of
State.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2RQ_M55Jhaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="2RQ_M55Jhaw"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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anniversary of the formation of the </span></span><a href="https://www.republic.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australian Republic Movement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, established on 7 July 1991. With Queen Elizabeth's reign nearing its end, the Australian Republic Movement is working on a new model to unite Australia in becoming a republic</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuQF-503u_wCCWNyM7JVVCkrO3kLk9noeSk5sLrnvNY2GgUx39sNGe8dFiInhUsmsOEC7G6f0zPpQ-ss_YXz2APTNL4DUGIDXn1FQm30R0kL2K5vbcV2I0G4ppya2GMq55pke/s199/Old+ARM+Logo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuQF-503u_wCCWNyM7JVVCkrO3kLk9noeSk5sLrnvNY2GgUx39sNGe8dFiInhUsmsOEC7G6f0zPpQ-ss_YXz2APTNL4DUGIDXn1FQm30R0kL2K5vbcV2I0G4ppya2GMq55pke/s0/Old+ARM+Logo.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buckingham Palace is
now making preparations for the end of the Queen’s reign. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" target="_blank">Prince Charles</a> is
reportedly <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/04/prince-charles-consort-queen-elizabeth-state-opening-parliament-prince-philip-death#:~:text=Royals-,Prince%20Charles%20Is%20Reportedly%20Taking%20on%20More%20Royal%20Duties%20Alongside,more%20significant%20and%20active%20role.%E2%80%9D&text=Charles%20will%20be%20at%20the%20forefront%20of%20those%20efforts%20as%20heir.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank">taking on</a> a number of responsibilities for the Queen, as heir to the
throne. It’s time Australia began preparing too, including working towards the
reforms needed for Australia to become a republic.</span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In January 2020, the
Australian Republic Movement (<a href="http://www.republic.org.au/" target="_blank">ARM</a>) adopted a new strategic
approach to build public consensus about the reforms that should be taken
to a referendum. This <a href="https://republic.org.au/media/2020/12/22/campaign-for-an-australian-republic-stronger-than-ever" target="_blank">involved</a> extensive public consultation, public opinion
research and consultation with academics and parliamentarians about the way
forward. That work has continued in 2021 and the ARM is on track to
announce its position on the key features of a model by the end of this year. </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ARM National
Director, <a href="https://republic.org.au/about" target="_blank">Sandy Biar</a> </span><a href="https://republic.org.au/media/2021/6/14/its-time-for-our-independence-from-the-british-monarchy"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">said</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that the reforms
would begin a new chapter in Australia’s campaign for its independence from the
British monarchy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We have been listening closely to the views shared with us by thousands
of Australians across the country and building on common ground we can all get
behind. It’s crucial we begin this conversation now so that all Australians
have the opportunity to be heard, be informed and to take part in the conversation
about our future. When we have a head of state who champions the interests of
Australians, who stands with us in times of crisis, who can speak for us as a
proud, fellow Australian chosen by Australians, then we will have truly come of
age</i>”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Republic_Movement" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australian
Republican Movement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
began over lunch at the residence of the former Premier of New South Wales, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Wran" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neville Wran</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. In 1987, Wran had
publicly stated his support for Australia becoming a republic and nominated
2001, the centenary of Australia’s federation, as an ideal date. He said that
he expected moves towards a republic would gain ground during the 1990s. Wran
was supported at the time by Prime Minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hawke" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bob Hawke</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 7 July 1991, a
group of prominent citizens held a meeting in Sydney to launch a republican
movement under the chairmanship of author </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thomas Keneally</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and included many
eminent persons from the political left and cultural centre of Australian
society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7gZy31lG3Zr9EJ9P57hH7SeeQ59XTx9ICLpmfo7SqN7eLpN4WMT6rM7G51h9dmFy9TkQWemDKjcCFZETdzimPGRX9M-HKIerwqU-H_H1f3Puis_oiId0p0V5zp_NM4I1H9Hi/s1600/ARM+1991.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1600" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7gZy31lG3Zr9EJ9P57hH7SeeQ59XTx9ICLpmfo7SqN7eLpN4WMT6rM7G51h9dmFy9TkQWemDKjcCFZETdzimPGRX9M-HKIerwqU-H_H1f3Puis_oiId0p0V5zp_NM4I1H9Hi/w320-h231/ARM+1991.jpg" title="1991 ARM Founding Members" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>1991 ARM Founding Members</b> </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 1991 Foundation
Members of the ARM were </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tom Keneally</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Dutton" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Geoffrey Dutton</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late Professor </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Horne" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Donald Horne</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Kee" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jenny Kee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Belgiorno-Nettis" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Franco
Belgiorno-Nettis</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franca_Arena" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Franca Arena</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Bandler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Faith Bandler</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/mark-day/news-story/dfe9bcd2b81789a1b7ae693231ecaae5?sv=d5666d1d171e9e3501905d3966e32" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark
Day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Doogue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Geraldine Doogue</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late </span><a href="http://www.artistprofile.com.au/colin-lanceley-1938-2015/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colin Lanceley</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the late </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Seidler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harry Seidler</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malcolm Turnbull</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Williamson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David Williamson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and the late Hon </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Wran"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neville Wran</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Tom Keneally was
the first national chairman and was <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/our-great-unfinished-project-the-australian-republic,11670" target="_blank">succeeded</a> by Malcolm Turnbull in November
1993.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The question of
whether or not Australia should be a republic has been debated for longer than
most people imagine. Australians have long discussed the idea of replacing the
constitutional monarchy with a republican constitution even during the 19th century,
before federation in 1901.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In early colonial
NSW, the American rejection of British rule and the violence of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">French Revolution</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> were well known.
Republicanism was often used as </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-convict-republic,3118" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">political
language</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
to challenge government authority and only hardened the resolve of those in
power to savagely repress any supporters. In 1795, the “</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/admiralty-house-on-republican-land,2974" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scottish
Martyrs</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”
arrived. The many Irish convicts brought with them antipathy towards the
British. Convict uprisings such as the 1804 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_convict_rebellion" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Castle
Hill rebellion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
were labeled republican. However, in most cases, the convicts were not looking
for political change, they just wanted to return home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The period from 1840
to 1856 was one in which colonial grievances reached their height. In Sydney in
1850, the outspoken firebrand Reverend </span><a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lang-john-dunmore-2326" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Dunmore Lang</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Advocate_and_New_South_Wales_Vindicator" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
People’s Advocate</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
editor </span><a href="https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A84184" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E.J.
Hawksley</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and the young </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Parkes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Parkes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
campaigned through the Australian League for a republican form of government
when the British Government wanted to reintroduce transportation of convicts.
In the early 1850s, during the gold rushes, there was an influx of large
numbers of migrants from Europe and the United States to Victoria, many of whom
were sympathetic to republicanism. This caused British officials to fear the
possibility of revolution. In 1854, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eureka Stockade
rebellion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ballarat</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> goldfield was
ultimately a republican desire for government by the people. However, the
urgency vanished when responsible government was granted in 1856.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the latter half of
the 19th Century, republicanism became strongly anti-monarchical and
nationalist in sentiment. The “inevitability” of an Australian republic became
a common theme. In the late 1870s, the traditional Irish enmity towards British
authority can be seen in the republican sentiments expressed in Ned Kelly’s </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerilderie_Letter" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jerilderie Letter</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and, later, in Kelly
gang member </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Byrne" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joe
Byrne’s</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<i>Declaration of the Republic of North East Victoria</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the 1880s,
there were 15 republican organisations, and 20 </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-tradition-of-republican-journalism,3170" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">newspapers
or journals</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
in cities and major country towns. This republicanism was often focused on
struggles between capital and labour. From 1884, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Bulletin</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> expounded a strong
anti-monarchical attitude. In 1887, republicans </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-1887-republican-vs-royalist-golden-jubilee-riots,3264" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">twice
defeated</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
attempts at Sydney Town Hall to pass a loyal resolution congratulating </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen Victoria’s</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Jubilee, resulting
in an open clash between thousands of demonstrators. Soon after, Sydney had a
Republican Union and a republican journal led by Louisa and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lawson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry Lawson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Black_(Australian_politician)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George
Black</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
It was in <i>The Republican</i> that Henry Lawson first published '</span><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-of-the-republic/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Song of the
Republic</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1890 and 1891, the
</span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-peoples-movements-of-australia,3143" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Australasian
Republican Association</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on the north Queensland goldfield of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charters_Towers" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charters Towers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> had over 700
members, published a regular journal and established republican branches. The <i>Australian
Republican</i> editor, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vosper" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F.C.B. Vosper</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, published an </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-shearers-strike-and-the-1891-bread-or-blood-editorial,3225" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inflammatory
editorial</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
at the height of the 1891 </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/1891-shearers-strike-and-the-rise-of-australian-labor,3353" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shearers’
Strike</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
calling for revolution and the declaration of the republic. He was arrested and
tried for seditious libel but eventually acquitted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MVIgrnQh23I" width="320" youtube-src-id="MVIgrnQh23I"></iframe></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why do we want an Australian Republic anyway?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Commonwealth of
Australia was the title chosen for the new nation at the 1891 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Australia" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National
Constitutional Convention</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Although there was controversy over the </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/commonwealth-is-a-republican-term,3100" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">republican
ancestry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
of the term, it was the title accepted in 1901. Prior to the mid-1890s,
republicans had insisted that national independence could only be achieved by
Australia’s secession from the British Empire. However, by 1901, federation was
seen as the </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-peoples-movements-of-australia,3143" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">first
step</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
on the road towards political independence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the 1960s,
republican activity </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/geoffrey-dutton-donald-horne-and-the-revitalisation-of-australian-republican-ideals,3319" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was
restarted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
by authors Geoffrey Dutton and Donald Horne. At the same time, the student
magazine, </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/geoffrey-dutton-donald-horne-and-the-revitalisation-of-australian-republican-ideals,3319" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oz</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, lampooned the
monarchy. A decade on, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
dismissal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
of Prime Minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gough
Whitlam</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
by the appointed Governor-General on 11 November 1975 outraged many
Australians. The 1975 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Constitutional
Crisis</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
drew attention to Australia's Constitutional arrangements and, since those
turbulent days, several notable Australians declared a commitment to an
Australian republic. There were many Town Hall meetings and calls to
"maintain the rage". During these years, the Australian Labor
Party edged towards declaring itself for the republic. This it </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/1981-the-republic-and-the-wedding,3561" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eventually
did</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
in 1982.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans proposed
1988 for the establishment of an Australian republic. This was not to be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the 1990s, the
popular definition of “republic” was simply the removal of the hereditary
monarch. This was seen as the last step in Australia’s political development.
In 1991, the Australian Republican Movement was established. In 1993, Prime
Minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
Keating</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
formed the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Advisory_Committee" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republic Advisory
Committee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
led by </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/face-of-the-republic-is-back,5310" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malcom
Turnbull</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
to prepare options on how to achieve a republic with minimal constitutional
change. In June 1995, </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/manning-clark-the-history-wars-and-australian-republicanism,3477" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keating
announced</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
his goal of a republic with an Australian Head of State.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 1998 </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/an-australian-republic-revisiting-the-1998-constitutional-convention,11199" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Constitutional
Convention</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
helped to strengthen the debate for a republic. While the republic was a major
issue in the late 1990s, the debate caught up in an argument about the best
selection method for the Head of State. It was on this crucial issue
republicans divided. In the absence of a proper process to resolve those
differences, Australians rejected the 6 November 1999 referendum 55 to 45%. No
political leader has subsequently emerged who wants to find common ground
amongst Australians and break the logjam. This is where it became frozen for
more than a decade.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2015,
distinguished author, journalist and Australian rugby union international </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_FitzSimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter FitzSimons</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/peter-fitzsimons-to-reboot-the-republic,7988" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was
appointed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
head of Australia's Republic Movement. A passionate republican, FitzSimons
is well known through his regular </span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/by/peter-fitzsimons-hvemu" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sydney Morning Herald</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> column, as well as
his </span><a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/peter-fitzsimons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">many
books</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
As one of our foremost writers of Australian history, FitzSimons has captured
some of the pivotal moments that have shaped our national identity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6yt4DkHddwY" width="320" youtube-src-id="6yt4DkHddwY"></iframe></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter FitzSimons and Tom Elliott debate the merits of a republic</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The political
landscape in Australia is definitely changing. The push for a republic has gone
from </span><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/new-look-australian-republic-takes-to-the-streets-on-australia-day,9964" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">strength
to strength</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
in recent years with support from a resurgent membership.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over the last few
years, Australian media has become a cheer squad for “celebrity” monarchy,
framing the republic debate as all about a family in Britain, when actually our
great national cause is about the sovereignty of the Australian people. The
monarchy is clearly no longer an institution that can unite Australians. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s broken. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In contrast, since it was first established over a decade ago by former ARM media director and vice-chair <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/david-donovan,7" target="_blank">David Donovan</a>, Independent <em>A</em>ustralia has become the <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-voice-of-an-australian-republic,7752" target="_blank">premier republican voice</a> in Australia, the modern-day version of <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin" target="_blank">The Bulletin</a></em> in its heyday of the 1880s and 1890s.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a long time since Australia has had such a strong<a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/becoming-a-republic-will-fix-our-broken-system,14207" target="_blank"> republican voice</a>. Independent <em>A</em>ustralia
has become that space — a republican space, a republican civic space
where republicans and others can debate the issues that are important to
our political and civic future.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only one-third of
Australians know the British Queen is our head of state and the monarchy is
becoming more unrepresentative of Australians as time goes on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The monarchy sits
above our system of democratic government, but cannot represent us, our
identity or our values as a nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Surely it must be
time for us to stand on our own two feet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2RQ_M55Jhaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="2RQ_M55Jhaw"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>God save the Queen ... ?</b><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
Glenn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500567496122529923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22998943.post-55235864426846266682021-05-13T08:35:00.000+10:002021-05-13T08:35:00.270+10:00Independent Australia - Happy 10th Birthday Party<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Hey, guess what? <i>Independent </i></span></strong><em><b><span style="color: black;">A</span></b></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><i>ustralia</i> is a BIG news
website now! It's double figures — TEN YEARS OLD!</span></strong><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"> Yep, little I<em>A</em> is all growed up!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AuUFR15M1TmJ1euIksGPWpcwrHmn7B20CKLW9slQHqWuReUjVojaQ4iL4U1zY4jvT0xNF22DsxEpuWn8cmoSOZL9SNsh_hNeDUDIoGRwIL7Yb28k9ynqAg3UpibZcgN4hyphenhyphenxW/s601/IA+10th+birthday+party.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AuUFR15M1TmJ1euIksGPWpcwrHmn7B20CKLW9slQHqWuReUjVojaQ4iL4U1zY4jvT0xNF22DsxEpuWn8cmoSOZL9SNsh_hNeDUDIoGRwIL7Yb28k9ynqAg3UpibZcgN4hyphenhyphenxW/s320/IA+10th+birthday+party.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Today<i> IA </i>will be having a 10th Birthday Party on the Gold Coast.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I remember ten years ago when <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/dont-cry-for-big-tobacco,2936" target="_blank">the first article</a> was published — the day after the “night of the long knives” when <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/ambush-on-night-of-long-knives-20101015-16nn0.html" target="_blank">Julia Gillard rolled Kevin Rudd</a> for the prime ministership. At the same time Rudd was being deposed, I<em>A</em> emerged as an independent Australian voice.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Congratulations from history editor <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/dr-glenn-davies-bio/" target="_blank">Glenn Davies</a> and the <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/about" target="_blank">team at Independent <em>A</em>ustralia</a> to managing editor <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/david-donovan,7" target="_blank">David Donovan</a>, who has nurtured his baby to this impressive milestone.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Over the past decade, Independent <em>A</em>ustralia has gone from <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/independent-australias-incredible-growth-continues-in-april,3372" target="_blank">strength to strength</a>. Since those <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/art/art-display/independent-australia-turns-one-today,3493" target="_blank">first days</a>, Independent Australia – founded by former <a href="https://republic.org.au/" target="_blank">Australian Republic Movement</a> vice chair David Donovan – has become the <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-voice-of-an-australian-republic,7752" target="_blank">premier republican voice</a> in Australia, the modern day version of <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin" target="_blank">The Bulletin</a></em> in its heyday of the 1880s and 1890s.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Australia has a <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-tradition-of-republican-journalism,3170" target="_blank">long tradition</a> of independent, republican journalism. This tradition was first established in newspapers such as the <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Advocate_and_New_South_Wales_Vindicator" target="_blank">People’s Advocate</a></em> and <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(newspaper)" target="_blank">Empire</a></em> of the 1840s and 1850s, supported in <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age" target="_blank">The Age</a></em> in the 1870s and 1880s and from a constant theme in publications in the 1890s, such as the Newcastle <em>Radical</em>, the <em><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/745" target="_blank">Wagga Hummer</a></em>, the Cairns <em>Advocate</em>, the Melbourne <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tocsin" target="_blank">Tocsin</a></em>, the Hobart <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/271"><em>Clipper</em> </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(Sydney_newspaper)" target="_blank">John Norton’s <em>Truth</em></a>. But it was in the pages of <em>The Bulletin</em> of the 1880s and 1890s that the flowering of republican ideals can most noticeably be seen to emerge.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Australia has a <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-tradition-of-republican-journalism,3170" target="_blank">long tradition</a> of independent, republican journalism. This tradition was first established in newspapers such as the <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Advocate_and_New_South_Wales_Vindicator" target="_blank">People’s Advocate</a></em> and <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(newspaper)" target="_blank">Empire</a></em> of the 1840s and 1850s, supported in <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age" target="_blank">The Age</a></em> in the 1870s and 1880s and from a constant theme in publications in the 1890s, such as the Newcastle <em>Radical</em>, the <em><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/745" target="_blank">Wagga Hummer</a></em>, the Cairns <em>Advocate</em>, the Melbourne <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tocsin" target="_blank">Tocsin</a></em>, the Hobart <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/271"><em>Clipper</em> </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(Sydney_newspaper)" target="_blank">John Norton’s <em>Truth</em></a>. But it was in the pages of <em>The Bulletin</em> of the 1880s and 1890s that the flowering of republican ideals can most noticeably be seen to emerge.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Over the past ten years, the task I have taken on with I<em>A</em> is to <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/glenn-davies,14" target="_blank">begin to document</a>
some of our shared republican history. For me, this historical journey
had begun much earlier with my 1988 James Cook University history <a href="http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:203600/s00855804_1990_14_3_99.pdf" target="_blank">honours thesis</a>, <em>‘The Australian Republican: a Charters Towers based radical journal, 1890-1891’</em>. Coincidentally, the first edition of the <em>Australian Republican</em> was published on 21 June 1890 — 130 years almost to the day before Independent <em>A</em>ustralia.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been a long time since Australia has had such a strong
republican voice. Australia’s republican voice has been lost for a long
time. There have certainly been many writers, artists, academics and
politicians who have actively advocated for an Australian republic over
the past century, however, they have not had a home where they can all
shelter under the same roof.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Independent <em>A</em>ustralia has become that space, a republican
space, a republican civic space where republicans and others can debate
the issues that are important to our political and civic future.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Over the past ten years, the task of documenting our shared republican history has included <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/lee-duffield,694" target="_blank">Lee Duffield</a>, <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/stephen-williams,855" target="_blank">Stephen Williams</a>, <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/david-muir,742" target="_blank">David Muir</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/barry-everingham-bio/" target="_blank">Barry Everingham</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/benjamin-jones-bio/" target="_blank">Dr Benjamin Thomas Jones</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/lewis-holden-bio/" target="_blank">Lewis Holden</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/scott-crawford-bio/" target="_blank">Scott Crawford</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/klaas-woldring-bio/" target="_blank">Dr Klass Woldring</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/john-skene-bio/" target="_blank">John Skene</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/robert-vose/" target="_blank">Robert Vose</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/roy-mckeen-bio/" target="_blank">Roy McKeen</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/ynes-sanz-bio/" target="_blank">Ynes Sanz</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/alan-austin-bio/" target="_blank">Alan Austin</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/kelly-butterworth-bio/" target="_blank">Kelly Butterworth</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/sarah-brasch-bio/" target="_blank">Sarah Brasch</a>, <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/len-liddelow-bio/" target="_blank">Len Liddelow</a> as well as, of course, Glenn Davies and David Donovan himself.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But there is still a great deal more to document. Australia’s
republican past has a rich and deep seam. It’s important to remember,
though, that our future is inextricably linked to our shared past.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Republican voices now have a home. All families need a home. Thanks to David Donovan and all the contributors to Independent <em>A</em>ustralia, the republican tribe can begin to look around and see who they are.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uuliLU9wwvo" width="320" youtube-src-id="uuliLU9wwvo"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><i>IA </i>is the journal of the Australian Republic<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> 24 June 2020 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/ten-years-of-truth-happy-birthday-independent-australia,14029" title="Permanent Link : Ten years of truth: Happy birthday, Independent Australia!">Ten years of truth: Happy birthday, Independent Australia!</a> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">24 June 2018 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/article-display/happy-eighth-birthday-independent-australia,11628" title="Permanent Link : Happy eighth birthday, Independent Australia!">Happy eighth birthday, Independent Australia!</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">24 June 2015 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/article-display/happy-fifth-birthday-independent-australia,7856" title="Permanent Link : Happy fifth birthday, Independent Australia">Happy fifth birthday, Independent Australia</a> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">24 June 2013 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/happy-third-birthday-ia-the-voice-of-an-independent-australia,5449" title="Permanent Link : Happy third birthday IA — the voice of an independent Australia">Happy third birthday IA — the voice of an independent Australia</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">24 June 2012 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-voice-of-an-independent-australia,4226" title="Permanent Link : The voice of an Independent Australia">The voice of an Independent Australia</a> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">24 June 2011 | <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/life/art-display/independent-australia-turns-one-today,3493" title="Permanent Link : Independent Australia turns one today">Independent Australia turns one today</a> <br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXcqxfA8C0U" width="320" youtube-src-id="EXcqxfA8C0U"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span>
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