by DAVID FLINT – THERE’S a desperate need, it seems, for an official Vice Regal Etiquette Manual. But not one about how we should behave in the presence of a viceroy. Rather, a manual about how viceroys should behave, especially when they…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHEN Tony Abbott created a dame – sadly, the execrable Quentin Bryce – he got fired. When the former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern was made one, those who loathe Abbott were in raptures. Funny old world. Ardern’s rewards…
by SEAN BURKE – THE ABC is under investigation for its hate-filled “hijacking” of King Charles’ Coronation earlier this month. With thousands of complaints pouring in since the May 6 ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey, an investigation has been launched by the…
by DAVID FLINT – “THE Coronation of the King and the Queen Consort signifies the unerring obligation of their Majesties to the Commonwealth, dedicating their lives to serve the nation,” declared His Majesty’s Australian Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Richard Marles. AS…
by AUGUSTO ZIMMERMAN – ON SATURDAY, King Charles III was solemnly crowned in Westminster Abbey in a ceremony whose roots date to the coronation of King Edgar the Peaceful in 973. The central act of this is when the king accepts his…
PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has commenced phasing out symbols of Australia’s constitutional monarchy, even before taking his planned changes to a referendum. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth last year, it was widely expected her image on Australia’s $5 note would be…
by DAVID FLINT – ONCE assumed inevitable, elite so-called “republicanism” suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of a nationwide grassroots movement in the 1999 referendum. Long comatose, their republic has just passed away, unmourned. It has taken elite “republicans” more than…
by ERIC ABETZ – I HAVE been involved with the Australian Monarchist League for many years now, but when I stepped up as Campaign Chairman of Vote No Republic, I did so with the confidence that the organisation supporting me was comprised…
by DAVID FLINT – POLLING, it has been said, is funded not to measure, but to shape public opinion. Obvious in the 2020 US election, however, there is little evidence of this in Australia. But as demonstrated here, the polls can be…
PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has urged Charles III to break royal protocol and fully engage in contentious political issues. In a train wreck interview with UK public broadcaster BBC shortly after Charles’ accession, Mr Albanese said the new King’s views on “climate…
