We at the Australian Republic Movement have always been in the business of evolution not revolution,and the fact that Australia has now demonstrably evolved to an entirely new era is lost on no one.
UK Opposition Leader Keir Starmer looked to have captured the mood of the country as he opened the Labour Party conference with a rousing rendition of God Save the King.
King Charles III must keep calm and carry on in the face of salvos from Harry and the controversy over staff cuts.
Her final resting place features a ledger stone bearing her name and those of her parents,and husband Prince Philip.
We don’t know most of these high-profile individuals but when celebrities die,a sense of grief often resonates.
Queen Elizabeth defined an era,but the way we mourn her says a lot about the current zeitgeist. Prime Minister Albanese has shown he understands the mood and is aligning with it.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney says she grew up singing God save the Queen in primary school while not being counted as an Australian and being denied the same citizenship rights as her non-Indigenous peers.
Australia’s arch-monarchist was simply nowhere to be found.
Outraged protesters called to “abolish the monarchy” as they paraded through central Melbourne,rejecting a public holiday mourning the Queen.
As 30 corgis and their owners sat quietly in Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Thursday,one errant bark broke their minute’s silence.
Over the past fortnight our First Nations communities have lost three monarchs more culturally significant to us than the fate and demise of an old woman in the UK.