Comments on: What is Australian Republicanism?

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:46:52 +0000

We have a de-facto republic already (despite lip-service to Mrs Windsor); it’s Howard’s very own Soviet Australia.

By: cam

cam — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:12:35 +0000

Jason, Republicanism’s history is both its strength and weakness. In terms of weakness there are what would be called factions in other political movements.

The ARM falls into the identity category. It is a minimalist form, remove the Queen and give Australia constitutional independence. It leads back to the 1960s and Geoffrey Dutton. Keating and Turnball embraced it in the 90s.

The other factions are probably the Harpurians and the technologists (maximallists, ie elected executive, separation of powers, etc).

By: timboy

timboy — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:42:35 +0000

Sounds great, where do I sign up.

Seems like you have a slightly different view of the individual freedom/liberty thing than the Quadrant crowd the other night. If Liberalism it must be, I’d rather it looked like this.

nice post

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:12:06 +0000

This Australian republicanism sounds like a nice idea. Too bad the ARM doesn’t espouse it…