Keywords: Australian Republic
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 January 2011
18 Comments
Some advocates of monarchy have jumped on the film The King's Speech as evidence that Australia needs a monarch. Monarchists often argue like this when they want to personalise the constitutional debate by concentrating on a member of the Royal family with attractive features.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 01 December 2010
5 Comments
The debate about the Indigenous constitutional referendum proposed by the Gillard Government is heading in a dangerous direction. Naysayers will not defeat it. What may defeat it is division among those who are supporters in principle but not supporters of the particular proposal.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kim Huynh
- 17 November 2010
7 Comments
My father would harbour a modern sense of can-do-ism and irreverence for tradition throughout his life. It was his vision of a new and better world along with the conviction that his sons had no future in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, that drove us on to that horribly overcrowded boat in 1979.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Susie Byers
- 20 October 2010
2 Comments
Harry Wetnose the Bigeye Tuna will probably never adorn any T-shirts. Nevertheless, the endangered Bigeye Tuna is in big trouble and could do with some help. The way we relate to fish raises some important questions about what it is to be a responsible person in the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 30 April 2010
1 Comment
Feed and clothe this Australian poet and lodge him in a library attached to a music venue, and remarkable things would happen. He made of London a country of the mind, its vices, virtues, constant features and mutability there to be inspected and eventually portrayed.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 January 2010
18 Comments
William's visit laid bare
the weaknesses of members of the Royal Family as
candidates for our head of state. The package represented by William should be anathema to
modern Australia's constitutional future, whatever he might have
to offer as a person.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 January 2010
4 Comments
Wealth can enable a person to flourish if it is used to nourish the
soul. But if people use their money for ugly, ignorant, unimaginative
or banal purposes, then they lack a moral title to their wealth.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 14 October 2009
16 Comments
The Republican Right's claim that Obama has yet to achieve anything is
a smokescreen for their rage, for Obama got this
award precisely because he is 'not Bush'. To speak a credible language of moral inspiration and hope to the world is an achievement in itself.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It
began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian
Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both
countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
7 Comments
At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2009
2 Comments
Good
intentions are not enough. Gone should be the days when Aboriginals are marginal to the corridors of power. Perhaps it will not be until we have seen the first Aboriginal Prime
Minister that agitators for Indigenous justice will be vindicated.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo AcuÑa
- 24 March 2009
1 Comment
US Republicans lobbied President Obama to impose hardships on Salvadorians livingin the US should the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front win last week's election. When the left did triumph, he did the opposite and congratulated the new leader.
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