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ACM Convenor Professor David Flint AM
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January 2008
- Correcting republican attempts to re-write history
- "Daily diatribes warning of mayhem and destruction ..."
- "There's nothing like a Dame ..."
- A republican fairytale
- When only the best will do.
- Prince William joins Royal Air Force
- Flag changing republicans rebuffed
- Leadership beyond politics
- National Council meets following election
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Monarchy and the media
- Michael Hodgman QC on the republican plan to use plebiscites
- NZ republic: a political "no go" area.
- Nepal: danger of vacuum
- The best thing about Australia
- A Year with the Royal Family
- "Head of State will visit Antarctica ..."
- Whose Order of Australia?
- Constantine, King of the Hellenes
- Australia Day awards
- The next Governor- General
- Australia Day
- "Don’t circumvent our Constitution!"
- Knights and Dames
- A watershed ... or a tsunami?
- His Excellency, The President of Europe
- The Governor-General and the media
February 2008
- Government House is just not the place for this
- "A Year with the Royal Family: National 9 TV: from 4 February to 3 March
- Events 2008
- The 2020 Summit: "Republicans will rise again?"
- Royal ratings soar ... and the Nine Network wins the evening
- The Accession ... Fifty six years of faithful service ...
- Vice regal website a hit
- The Accession: "A time for pride in our identity," declares HM’s Canadian Government.
- John Howard: a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter?
- The Queen-in-Parliament
- G-G stories: two newspapers flout press code
- Republicans turn on former leader, benefactor
- Abolish the States
- P P McGuinness [1928 -- 2008]
- Royal programmes on TV
- The Age gets it wrong
- Creeping republicanism reversed
- "A Year with the Royal Family" a winner
- Head of State: diplomatic blunder.
- "Is Australia ready for a Republic – Yes or No?" Debate at Parliament House, Sydney; Events Diary
- State visit to Jakarta: Sir David reveals what really happened
- Days of Royalty
- Pressure on PM to rush republic
- Royalty TV rates
- Prince Harry: honour, duty and service
March 2008
- Republican Desperation
- World Youth Day: Australian coin depicts two monarchs
- Prince Harry: "You don't have to be a monarchist ..."
- That leak: appalling republican allegation by media columnist in The Australian
- Commonwealth Day and upcoming events
- Sticking together ... republican royal watchers ...
- Commonwealth Day, 2008
- Disloyalty smear
- The Art of the Possible
- The Queen's Birthday and upcoming events
- New Idea apologizes
- Constitutional heads
- Royal TV ratings
- Republican royal watcher changes tune
- Republic inevitable over monarchist corpse "if need be", says leading republican
- Head of State to open memorial park at Beersheba
- Summit to rule on republic: only one view to be permitted?
- Clergyman’s republican Easter Message.
- Malcolm and the Mullahs
- Events for 2008 as at 30 March
- The Anglosphere
- Summit fails first test
- President Sarkozy received by The Queen : the Australian link
- 2020 Summit blunder: governance experts wrong
- Confusion, confusion ...
April 2008
- "Frozen continent": republican pessimism
- Not getting into bed with the passionate republicans
- Prime Minister still reluctant... but versatile
- Debate gerrymandered
- The Inquest
- Courtesy and curtseys
- ... "Monarchists promise fight over republic," reports Herald ...
- National Events Diary as at 11 April, 2008
- "You lot will keep on voting until you get it right!"
- Panic at the Summit: judges resign
- Humpty Dumpty enters republican debate
- New Governor-General
- Egg on their faces - again : Summit organizers
- ... "Diana's beautiful, motherless, sons, who have upheld the last vestiges of dignity..."
- Summit: not only rigged ... but also mismanaged...
- The Governor-General Designate
- Summit: "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let the hundred schools of thought contend."
- "Royalty protects us from tyranny."
- "The Queen won": republican
- Monarchists Promise Fight, says London broadsheet
- Summit Vote for republic, 100%. Are they serious?
- National Events as at 22 April, 2008
- Rigged vote on republic
- Summit Laughing Stock
- Summit: Republicans backtrack
- Crikey: Against dismantling our constitutional system
- Constitutionalists fight back
- Criticism of Summit: ABC report
- Leading independent commentators condemn summit recommendations.
- Republic: they didn't "lose the tarts' vote"
- Anzac Day, 2008
- The Queen wasn't invited to Villers-Bretonneux
- Canada remembers HMAS Sydney
- Republican plan: expel the Victorian Governor.
- Further divisions among republicans emerge
- Reforming the Constitution
- Touché Monsieur Rudd!
- New media in the Peoples' Republic.
May 2008
- Hear Alexander Downer's devastating response to Summit
- Republican loses preselection for Lord Mayor
- Knighthoods? Only if they are foreign.
- Collapse! Young Australians kill off republic.
- Republicans behaving disgracefully
- Will the media be balanced?
- Australian youth dump republic: another poll
- Summit: 2020 or 1984?
- Warning: republic will give Canberra control over states.
- The Governor-General speaks
- Royal marriage to a Canadian
- Waiting for Godot
- Republicans " concerned" about the succession
- Fight for republic not forgotten
- "Oh, Mr Durie, you really ought to know when to shut up"
- The Royal Family , tradition and service
- No pantheon of republican heroes
- Republicans still irreconcilably divided
June 2008
- 2020 Summit subjected to Senate scrutiny
- Comparing the republican way with the monarchist style
- Summit used by one side in fight between republicans
- Republicans irreconcilably divided: Part 2
- Republican double standards
- The Queen's Birthday
- "A Mad Hatter's Party ... frenzied and chaotic" : Leading 2020 Summiteer's assessment
- Republicans irreconcilably divided: Part 3
- Our constitutional guarantor
- Republicans believe they would lose another referendum
- Republican plebiscites slammed as irresponsible vandalism: Senator Minchin
- Another referendum: republic defeated
- Sri Lankan government's ill conceived UN campaign
- What he actually said
- When Irish eyes are smiling
- Accounting anomalies exposed
- The campaign against the Governor-General. Why?
- The wisdom of our Founding Fathers
- Confirmed: Australians just aren't interested in any republic.
July 2008
- Republicanism across the Tasman
- Quadrant: Head of State debate resolved
- Fewer Labor MPs, abolish States, declare republic: Defence Minister
- The monarchy - a bargain even for Marxists
- Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: media accused over 2020 Summit.
- The debate is over ... republicans will have to find another reason
- The media won't: so tell people what is actually going on in Australia
- Media assessment of a great Foreign Minister
- Prince of Wales overwhelms reporter's republican spirit.
- The visit of The Pope
- Fifty disastrous years
- Inevitable? Yes, provided the states are abolished.
- Ninety years on: a terrible crime remembered
- The disaster which followed the murder of the Tsar
- Governor-General acknowledges a "greatly respected spiritual man".
- Russian Martyrs honoured in Australia
- Media abuse or public interest?
- A dangerous practice
- The Hon Lindsay Thompson, AO CMG
- The last thing most republicans want is more democracy
- With the utmost respect, Your Honour
August 2008
- Republican dreams
- Solzhenitsyn: constitutional monarchist
- Paul Keating re-enters the debate - or did he ever leave it?
- Why Singapore fell: Paul Keating should apologise.
- Are they already planning a new flag?
- Monarchy stifles artistic talent...except mine
- Whom do Australians trust most?
- VJ Day
- Patriotism and polling
- A "narrative" for the government?
- Why The Bulletin closed
- Tenth National Conference Perth, September
- The Defender: Plebiscites,Prince Harry, the disappearing youth vote and other reports
- We are winning
- Republic Debate, Sky TV, Monday 730am 25 August, 2008
- They're not usually naive
- Mixing politics with sport up to the London Olympics: SkyTV debate today
- 2008 Western Australian Election
- Fighting for a republic...or fighting among the republicans
- A call to arms
- Campaign fails: nobody's interested
- Prominent republican says: monarchies are best
- The Royal Australian Institute of Architects has a bet each way
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