As most of Australia takes a well-earned break, it’s time once again to reflect on Australia’s future under the British monarchy and the need for our independence from the Crown.
Read MoreThe Australian Republic Movement (ARM) stands by its assertion that Buckingham Palace was “consulted and forewarned about Governor-General John Kerr’s likely decision to dismiss the Whitlam Government, provided advice on how the Governor-General's reserve powers might be exercised, and that Sir John Kerr even war-gamed possible scenarios with the Palace and Prince Charles in which he himself might be dismissed as Governor-General” and that “without the explicit assurances of the Palace Sir John Kerr may not have acted.”
Read MoreThe Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has called out Buckingham Palace’s arrogant attempt at misleading Australians about the nature of their involvement in the dismissal of the democratically elected Whitlam government.
Read MoreThe Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has welcomed their release, saying that Australians deserved to know to what extent the British Royal Family and Buckingham Palace was involved in one of the most controversial chapters in Australian political history.
Read MoreAs much of the country celebrates a well-earned long weekend, most Australians would be bemused to know that the public holiday marks the birthday of the head of our Australia, the British Monarch Queen Elizabeth. It is the second of five days in 2020 set aside to mark the Queen’s Birthday: her actual birthday on 21 April, 15 June on Norfolk Island, 28 September in Western Australia, 5 October in Queensland and 8 June in the remainder of the nation.
An Essential Media poll in May 2018 found that just one third of Australians knew the British Queen was Australia’s head of state (see Appendix A). Given the increasing irrelevance of the British Monarchy to modern Australia, the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) is calling for the public holiday to instead acknowledge Australia’s frontline heroes who make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians every day.
Read MoreA new poll conducted by Dynata over 1-3 June 2019 shows that support for an Australian republic has surged to 57% for under 25 year olds and opposition continues to fall away, with fewer than one in seven people under 35 now opposed.
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