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Australians may vote in the 2010 federal elections on whether their country should become a republic. Green Senator Bob Brown has introduced legislation that would require the poll. The Greens hope that proposing the legislation will help measure public opinion. According to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper 70 per cent of Australians want to end the…

Republican John Key will become the prime minister of New Zealand following the success of his National Party in the general election last weekend. Mr. Key has said that it is “inevitable” that his country will become a republic. He believes this might happen when Elizabeth Windsor ceases to be Britain’s hereditary head of state…

The crisis in the world economy has provided another demonstration of the absurdity of Britain’s official class system. Two “knights” and one “lord” have lost their high-powered jobs as a result of the state rescue of British banks. Both Fred Goodwin and Tom McKillop, chief executive and chairman of RBS, have left the bank. Denis…

Female and Catholic members of the Windsor family will be protected from gemder amd religious discrimination if government proposals becomes law. According to a report in the Guardian newspaper the government intends to ask Parliament to change laws going back 300 years that determine which Windsor should become head of state. At present Catholic members…

Malcolm Turnball has been elected by 45 to 41 votes to lead the Australian Liberal Party. Mr. Turnball chaired the Australian Republican movement in the 1990s. When the referendum on a republic was lost he said that the then Liberal prime minister, John Howard would be remembered for “only one thing: he was the prime…

“Many New Zealanders . . . think it inevitable Mr. (John) Key will be the next prime minister” according to the Financial Times. Mr. Key is a republican who has said that it is “inevitable” that his country would become a republic. He thought that this might happen when Britain changes its feudal head of…

The weakness of Britain’s democratic culture has been demonstrated by an extraordinary attack on republicans by former cabinet minister Norman Tebbit. The prominent conservative has alleged that MPs who have signed a House of Commons motion to end the requirement that legislators swear allegiance to the Windsor clan, are attacking the state or wish to…

The end of feudalism in the British legislature may be delayed again. Justice minister Jack Straw has published the third discussion paper on House of Lords reform in seven years. But if he has his way there will be no more reform until after the general election, which may not be until 2010. The Conservative,…

The Barclay brothers have said they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after the High Court rejected their claim that state recognition of feudal positions in Sark breaches human rights. New legislation will give Sark, a “crown dependency”, an elected legislature for the first time. However, the unelected feudal positions of Seigneur…

The Scout Association has threatened to deny full membership of its Cubs to eight-year-old Matthew McVeigh because he refuses to promise allegiance to Britain’s feudal head of state, Elizabeth Windsor. Matthew’s family is Catholic and Britain’s constitution bars Catholics from the nation’s chief public office. His mother Tracy McVeigh told the Daily Record newspaper “The…