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- 10/12/2003 (late evening: Have removed several links to Aron Paul's defunct "A Crown of Glory and Righteousness" site at his request as they no longer reflect his views on the issue.
- 10/12/2003 (early evening): Added links to a guide to Senate committee submissions, a speech by Peter Costello, and an article by Matthew Ward. Also revived a link to a speech by Harry Gibbs.
- 4/12/2003: The Senate committee's issues paper has finally become available in two formats. Added links in a new subsection in the The Republic Post-1999 section.
- 3/12/2003: A long-overdue update with a large number of changes.
- Virtual Convention & Not the World News have gone. Links deleted.
- Bill Bunbury's site, a cockatoo's view site, www.republicdebate.com.au, www.therepublic.com.au, www.sovereignpeople.com, www.yescoalition.org.au, a website giving the views of an unidentified author on www.lisp.com.au, a page on www.liao.net, a position paper by the Republican Party of Australia, & Roslyn Lucas's correspondence with Ria Arinta Mukti have vanished, as have essays by Gareth Evans, David Hull, Albert Langer, Michael Legg, Alex McGavin, Stephen Moignard, Chris Travers, Lloyd Waddy, and Geoffrey K. White, and a press release from the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne. The transcripts of three interviews at "heineman.com.au" have gone, as has a site on local constitutional conventions at "www.alga.com.au". Also the Law Society Journal has now restricted online access to subscribers. Links disabled.
- The Political Science Discourse site, David Latimer's Public Participation Document Archive, the website for the State library of NSW, the Republican Party of Australia, and the Roy Morgan organisation have all moved their websites in some fashion. So has the NSW State Library's LIAC site, which seems to have been moved off the main state library server to its own. In addition, Discovering Democracy & the Federal Attorney-General's "law.gov.au" site have rearranged parts of their websites. Assorted links fixed.
- David Moss's site has reappeared at a temporary website. One link fixed.
- Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy have also rearranged their website. Some links fixed, others disabled.
- The University of NSW Law Journal has confined the online versions of its articles to its AustLII site (which has been rearranged). Various links for the former deleted, those for the latter fixed.
- The Corowa People's Conference website has disappeared from the Net. Most links to it have been fixed using the NLA's Pandora site. (One has reappeared elsewhere and was used instead).
- The Women for an Australian Republic website has also disappeared from the Net. In fact it seems to have disappeared only recently because it was up when I first checked it a month or so back. A couple of links to it have been fixed using the NLA's Pandora site. Unfortunately, the Pandora's archive of that site is somewhat ancient and could not be used to recover one of the files I'd picked up during my most recent check of the site, so I have taken the liberty of recovering it using Google's caching system & posting it on my own site.
- Fixed links to essays & speeches by Robert Benwell, Garry De Vries, Harry Evans, Bruce Hannaford, David Hull, Peter Lawrence, Noel McDonald, Barry O'Keefe, Bryan Palmer, the president of the Royal Society of NSW, Glen Sheil, David Smith, John Uhr, Lloyd Waddy, & McKenzie Wark. and a transcription of a CBA talk to Nick Hobson. Also a couple of CCF links I'd overlooked have been fixed (using Pandora) and links to interviews on the University of Wollongong site with more than 20 experts (mostly legal, but a sprinkling of others) from Tony Blackshield to Leslie Zines.
- Revived a link related to the 1997 Convention at the PM's site, and others to speeches, articles, & essays by Neville Bonner, Phil Cleary, Bill Hayden, Ian Holloway, and Julian Leeser.
- Added links to a thesis by Chris Ballinger, and to articles, essays, presentations, speeches & speech notes by Tony Abbott, the Australian Civil Liberties Union, the Australian Studies Centre in Thailand, Anne Barber, Andrew Bartlett, Philip Benwell, Flo Bjelke-Petersen, Ron Boswell, Peter Botsman, Sarah Brasch, Judith Brooks, Shaun Carney, Ray Cassin, Phil Cleary, Zelman Cowen, Greg Craven, Michael Danby, Glyn Davis, Simon Dillon, James Dunn, Tom Dusevic, Tim Fischer, Imelda Fleming, Brian Galligan, Jennie George, the Green Left Weekly, Ken Handley, Samuela Harris, Allison Henry, Anne Henderson, Janet Holmes a Court, Helen Irving, Kerry Jones, James Killen, Sandy Killick, Michael Kirby, Sol Lebovic, Jack Lee, Julian Leeser, Peter Lewis, R.D. Lumb, Jenny Macklin, Brian Martin, Benjamin May, Mark McKenna, Graham McLennan, David Mitchell, Tony Moore, Andrew Murray, Paul Norton, Edward O'Farrell, Barry O'Keefe, Pat O'Shane, Bryan Palmer, John Passant, J. B. Paul, Bill Peach, Michael Purvis, John Pyke, Peter Reith, Charles Sampford, Jocelynne Scutt, Sir David Smith, Karin Sowada, Jonathan Strauss, Lindsay Tanner, James Terrie, Michael Thompson, Amanda Vanstone, Lloyd Waddy, John Warhurst, Martyn Webb, Alasdair Webster, Gough Whitlam, Daryl Williams and George Winterton. Also a report of an interview with Ted Mack and a 1993 ACTU congress resolution.
- Add a link to a transcript of an interview with Peter Costello, Tim Fischer, and John Howard.
- Added links to an issues paper by the Queensland CRC and a press release about the expert panel on the public education campaign for the 1999 referendum. Also added links to republic models by Andrew Cole, David Catchpole, Yogi Marriott, Bryan Palmer, and David Shannon.
- Added links to an online version of part of the RAC report and to a review of that report by Malcolm Turnbull. Also a link to a summary of a debate at Moreland City College in 1999 & another on ABC radio's AM program, and another to a transcript of (& other material for) an online discussion in September 2003.
- Added links to the Australian Constitutional Referendum study of 1999, and another to an analysis of it by John Pyke.
- Added links to over a dozen Newspoll opinion polls on the republic issue.
- The Republic Party of Australia's site has vanished from the Net: fixed a link to an essay by John Pyke (using a secondary link).
- Fixed a hitherto unnoticed blunder in which the "Jennie George's Republic Update" link in the Constitutional Convention section was given the wrong link!
- The "dynamite.com.au" domain, which includes the Women's Constitutional Convention & Gareth Evans' websites, appears to be in some kind of trouble. WCC still seems to be technically available but won't connect, while visitors to Gareth Evans' site get redirected to "www.austarmetro.com.au". The WCC links have been resurrected using the NLA's Pandora service. (The others I will leave until the next update in the hope that they may eventually reappear.)
- These Tides magazine's site has exceeded its quota, which may mean it's defunct. Again I have not yet disabled the links here to it in the hope the problem will eventually be corrected.
- Have updated the links & done some general housecleaning on a long-neglected webpage of links to candidate webpages for the 1997 convention election.
- Discovered that most of the PDF files I had put online of the republic & preamble bills and & their various explanatory memoranda were coming up blank! Replaced them with fresh copies.
- Added an Organisations Websites subsection in the Opposing Opinions section.
- Assorted typos corrected. Also in mid-November the webserver these webpages sit on was reconfigured, breaking most GIF links: fixed.
- Finally, a news item: the website for the Senate's Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Matters has announced that the committee will hold a public inquiry into various matters related to a republic. The terms of reference are online, but at this stage not much else. Submissions have not yet been called, but an issues paper is in preparation.
- 17/10/2002: Another minor update:
- Restored a link to an online letter by Noel McDonald.
- Fixed a link to an address from the Royal Society of NSW.
- Like its stablemate The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age newspaper of Melbourne has removed its republic websites and taken all articles related thereto offline. Or at least restricted their availability to its pay-to-view service. Another sad sign of the times. Assorted links disabled.
- The Samuel Griffith Society has rearranged its website, breaking every link in the process. Assorted links fixed.
- Added a link to an article by Noel Cox.
- 19/7/2002: Yet another minor update:
- Fixed the handful of Federal Law Review links (they now point to the respective articles on the National Library's Pandora archive of the FLR). Also used Pandora to revive the links to the "www.realrepublic.com.au" site.
- The AEC has seen fit to reorganise its site, breaking every link in the process. (They may also have acquired new webserving software. One which may have been poorly set up. Everything in their site now branches off a folder labelled "_content". Normally such a folder would not be part of a site's URLs.) Some links fixed, some disabled, but also added a link: to the AEC's official report on the 1999 referendum.
- Fixed a hitherto unnoticed formatting problem on one page which affected certain Windows versions of the Netscape browser.
- Fixed the link to an article by Albert Langer.
- Added links to articles by David Flint, Wayne Hall, Malcolm Mackerras, & Nancy Stone.
- 26/4/2002: Another minor update: fixed a couple of dead links to the online booklet "Hot Topic 22: A Republic".
- 9/4/2002: Very minor update: fixed a dead link to a speech by Peter Costello.
- 13/3/2002: Another long overdue update with a very large number of changes. The bad news is that a substantial number of sites have vanished off the WWW over the past 20-something months, taking their pages with them. The better news is that before they vanished some of them were archived by the National Library of Australia's Pandora system, and are therefore still available on the WWW. All Pandora-resurrected links have been marked accordingly.
- The sites for Legal Forum on the Proposed Republic (from the Law Foundation of NSW's site), the AEC's Referendum '99 site, Liberals for a Republic, the Vote NO Alliance, the Referendum 1999, the Women for an Australian Republic, & the Yes and More Coalition sites have vanished, but the NLA's Pandora archive has been able to fill the gap. Links fixed (other than in the case of ones like chat room links; these have been disabled).
- The following websites have vanished from the WWW in a more permanent fashion: the Referendum Information Service (from the Law Foundation of NSW's site), Australian Referendum for a Republic, one of the Real Republic sites (realrepublic.homepage.com), the No Republic Victoria site, Paddy's Place, the ALP Society of North America, Young Australians Against This Republic, and the website for the Atheists Foundation of Australia. Meanwhile, assorted Sydney Morning Herald articles have also vanished from its site, while the Australian Democrats have gone and reorganised their own site (as far as I can make out, tossing out some republic stuff in the process). Links disabled (but some SMH ones were removed instead because they were only duplicates of The Age articles, which are still available). However, some of the Australian Democrats ones have merely moved. The links to these latter sort have been fixed.
- The Virtual Convention site has vanished. Link deleted.
- The ARM, the Constitution Centenary Foundation, and Christopher Pyne have all reorganised their sites. In addition, the PM's own website has moved its 1999 media releases & Senator Kate Lundy has moved her site to a different address. Assorted links fixed. In some cases (especially in the case of the CCF) the material has vanished, in which case I've disabled the link. The Queen's own site has also had a reorganisation, but rather then search for the page in question I'd linked to previously I have simply substituted a link for the site as a whole.
- The ACTU site seems to have merged with another, and in the process much of the content on the republic has vanished. Links disabled.
- Link to correspondence between Roslyn Lucas and Ria Arinta Mukti on the republic issue has moved. Fixed.
- The Alliance for Democratic Reform, the Australian Constitutional Information Site, Heinemann the publishing house, the Public Policy Assessment Society, & the Republican Party of Australia have also moved. So has the non-High Court archive of Justice Kirby's papers & also Bryan Palmer's website. Links fixed (where they still exist; disabled when they don't).
- Some of the material on Kim Beazley's proposed republic plans post-1999 at the ALP site has vanished, as has a Festival of Light paper elsewhere. Links disabled.
- The Evatt Foundation has moved, and in the process Elizabeth Evatt's paper Human Rights and the Republic has vanished. Also KPMG's tidbit on "Constitutional Convention election expenses" has gone. Links disabled.
- The Bankstown-Canterbury Torch website has also moved, but the republic material there has vanished. Links disabled.
- The Green Left Weekly has also moved its website, but unfortunately (and despite the presence of links) its archives do not yet reach back before 1998! So I've updated the link to its website but disabled the link to Karen S. Fredericks & Pip Hinman's articles pending the arrival of the rest of its back issue archive.
- Have located archived copies (at the NLA's Pandora site) of the Dept of PM & Cabinet's Convention website, the Constitutional Centenary Foundation site, and the Official YES case site. Various links (including ones to the final convention report) restored. (Unfortunately, the CCF one cannot be used to restore all the broken links to that site. Those which can't I have left disabled.)
- Pandora has also been used to resurrect certain ARM links.
- The original link to the Deliberative Poll on the republic has vanished (and so has had to be disabled), but other pages on it remain at the same site and I have put these up in its place.
- The website for the Qld Constitutional Convention of 1999 seems to have vanished from the Constitutional Centenary Foundation's site, but fortunately I've found another copy of the site on the Qld's Government's constitution site. Links adjusted.
- The republic models devised by Charles Mollison and James F. Stack have vanished, as has a paper on a model by Klaas Woldring. Links disabled.
- A page by John Pyke which had vanished from the web has now resurfaced (but on a different website). Link re-enabled. I have also changed the link to the pages for his proposed republican model to give a more direct access.
- Pages by John Burge, Phil Cleary, Allen Douglas, Sir Harry Gibbs, Bruce Knox, and Geoffrey Partington have also reappeared. Links reenabled. (And a speech by Kerry Jones at the ACM site may also have reappeared there. At least it is one with (almost) the same title. Link reenabled.)
- Added a (belated) link to a Morgan opinion poll that was taken during the Constitutional Convention of 1998.
- Added a link to a summary of the RAC report.
- Various sites have updated their pages in assorted ways. In some cases this has meant modification to the pages here. Generally I have not marked these--except where there has been a change in page title as well (eg the Ratifers For Democracy" page), in which case I have changed the title for the link also; and the "UPDATED" reflects not much the change in content on the other page as the change in title for the page I link to.
- Added a link to a review of the Republic Advisory Committee by Malcolm Turnbull, and articles, letters, speeches, and commentary of other sorts by Greg Barns, Kim Beazley, Gladys Berejiklian, Bronwyn Bishop, an unknown editorialist for the Canberra Times, Zelman Cowen, Kerry Corke, David Charnock, Greg Craven, Stephen Crowe, Amrita Dasvarma, Gareth Evans, David Flint, Chris Gallus, Jennie George, Harry Gibbs, Helen Gregorczuk, Jack Hammond, Ken Handley, Mike Head, Sonny Inbaraj, Helen Irving, Nigel Jackson, WB "Digger" James, Kerry Jones, Dale Kreibig, Michael Lavarch, Law For You, David Lundberg, Jenny Macklin, Graham Maddox, Rev. Kameel Majdali & David Phillips, Richard McGarvie, Nicole Mitchell, Andrew Nette, Ron Poulsen & Bob Aiken, John Pyke, Kim Rubenstein, Susan Ryan, "Ryth", Campbell Sharman, David Smith, Paul A. Sorenson, Peter Spearritt, Andrew Stewart, Lucy Sullivan, Godrey Tanner, James Terrie, Bruce Tranter, Alan J. Ward, Noel Weeks, Gough Whitlam, George Winterton, the Women's Electoral Lobby, an unknown writer of Workers Online, Neville Wran and Melissa Yuan.
- Also added links to transcripts of interviews on Triple J, the ABC Radio National's Media Report & Law Report, and the ABC's 7:30 Report, plus extracts from a Brisbane Institute seminar with Ted Mack & Clem Jones.
- Added links to an online version of a book by Richard McGarvie and another (called a "book" but judging from the size might more properly be labelled a "booklet") edited by Annette Shiell and Peter Spearritt.
- Have also reassessed some more of the links in the Other Relevant Papers and moved them to other sections.
- Corrected a number of grammatical and other assorted textual blunders and done some minor reformatting of this page and some of the sections.
- Late addendum: I originally started this update way back in December. I was about to make these changes live when a last quick check of certain sites I had not visited since then revealed a serious problem with accessing certain pages on the "www.realrepublic.com.au" one (you now get an error message rather than the desired page). Attempts to report the problem via email to the owners of the site have proved fruitless (the emails bounce). As a result I have had to disable the links to the affected pages.
- 5/6/00:
- The Australian republican Movement reorganised their site not long after my previous update. Consequently, a large number of changes have had to be made to links to material there. I won't bother to list those individually here, but in the main they consist of two sorts: pages which have changed location (and often filename as well), and pages which have vanished altogether. Links to the former I have fixed, while those to the latter I have disabled. A third sort is confined to the Teague, Turnbull, and Winterton constitution drafts. These have not only changed location but have also been split into smaller files, and I have simply linked to the main file in each case.
- Did some minor rearranging of the presentation of the Issues & Analysis and Opposing Opinions sections.
- Also more of the papers from the ACM site have vanished from the WWW as they continue on with the reorganisation of that site. Various links disabled.
- Added links (some belatedly) to two Roy Morgan opinion polls on the republic issue, David Latimer's archive on public participation in the nomination process, a page on Scoop NZ news site by Simon Orme, to a media release from the Catholic archbishop of Melbourne advocating a Yes vote in the 1999 referendum, and the Australian Referendum for a Republic and Young Australians Against a Republic sites. Plus another (edited) version of Peter Reith's case against the Bipartisan model.
- Added links (including a number of belated ones regarding the 1999 referendum) to speeches, essays, articles, and other webpages (sometimes more than one) by Tony Abbott, Julia Baird, Greg Barns, Philip Benwell, Pamela Bone, Gerard Brennan, Ron Brunton, Bob Carr, Andrew Clark, Phil Cleary, the Communist Party of Australia, Peter Costello, Greg Craven, Robert Ellicott, David Flint, Chris Gallus, Alf Garland, Harry Gibbs, Bill Hayden, Gerard Henderson, Jenny Hocking, Bob Hogg, Ian Holloway, David Hull, Andrew Jakubowicz, Paul Keating, Alan Kennington, Karen Kissane, Bruce Knox, Julian Leeser, David Malouf, Robert Manne, David Marr, Janet McCalman, Padraic McGuinness, Mark McKenna, Linda Morris, Barry O'Keefe, Audrey Oldfield, Pat O'Shane, Tony Parkinson, Geoffrey Partington, Stephanie Peatling, Ian C. Purdie, Brian Regan, Andrew Robb, David Russell, Tim Seifert, Glen Sheil, Ian Sinclair, Deborah Snow, the Socialist Worker, Tony Stephens, Andrew Stevenson, Geoff Strong, a Sydney Morning Herald editorialist, Lloyd Waddy, Steve Waldon, Michael Warby, John P. Warren, Martyn Webb, David Williamson, and Neville Wran. Along with an unknown journalist of the Melbourne Age. Also links to extracts from the campaign diary of Greg Barns, and to Deborah Snow's interview with the campaign director of ACM.
- Added links to an overview page by the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong, a press release by Attorney-General Daryl Williams & another by Williams and the Special Minister of State, and submissions on the republic bills by Peter Crayson and by the Law Society of NSW. Also added links to a commentary on the republic bills by Michael Legg and to a summary of audience views etc at a forum on the republic held in August 1999 at the State Library of NSW.
- A paper by George Williams on the ACM site has gone AWOL. Link disabled. On the other hand, I've found a copy by him on the SMH site of another I had previously disabled (different title, different site, same essay). Link updated & reenabled.
- An essay by John Burge has gone missing. Link disabled.
- Philip Gibson's No Republic page has vanished. Various links disabled.
- Located and obtained the (pdf) texts of the Presidential Nominations Bill and the explanatory memorandum for the Preamble bill at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/info/republic/, and a copy (in a PM press release) of the original exposure draft version & the final version. Links added.
- The "Anonymous Draft" blueprint in the Radical Revisions part of Other Blueprints is no longer anonymous. David Cusack drafted it, and has emailed me the address of its new home. Link fixed & updated.
- Added a link to the forums on the republic issue provided at the Democratic Alternative for the Australian Republic site.
- Have located another copy of the bios for the 36 appointed delegates to the 1998 Convention. Link reenabled.
- Essays by Harry Gibbs & Heidi Zwar which were formerly on the official No case site have reappeared on the No Republic Victoria site. Links reassigned to their new site. Restored the main link to another Gibbs essay by using one of its subsidiary links.
- Created a separate "Pro-Monarchy" part of Opposing Opinions for those links which are more pro-monarchy than anti-republic and moved several of the "Against" subsection into it. Moved: Charles Coulombe's link, & one of Aron Paul's.
- I have re-evaluated several more of the essays etc linked in Other Relevant Papers, and moved the links to Issues and Analysis or Opposing Opinions: Jeff Kennett's "The Crown and the States", Walter Campbell's "The Crown and the Constitution", and two speeches by David Flint.
- Moved Jack Lee's essay from the "Against" subsection of Opposing Opinions into the "National Identity" views part.
- Removed the David Mulliss link (which pointed to a more or less empty page), the Morris link, and the anomalous Monarchist League of Australia link, all in Opposing Opinions.
- 3/4/00: A very overdue update with a very large number of changes. On this occasion I have tested every link, fixing broken ones wherever possible, disabling where not (if I missed any, let me know!) Some new links have been added where I have become aware of them, but a more comprehensive sweep of the Net will have to await a future update.
- Renamed the "The Official Blueprint" section -> "The 1999 Blueprint". If the content warrants, material will still be filed under it (as with this update, where some pre-referendum material has come to my attention that escaped it before November 1999).
- Established a new Post-1999 section for post-mortems, discussion of future plans, etc. (More general essays will still be filed under Issues and Analysis or Opposing Opinions.)
- Fixed a URL concerning the 1999 referendum at John Pyke's "Australian Constitutional Information Site".
- Added a new page by Wayne Hall, & one by John Costella (two others by him will take longer to convert, and will have to wait until the next update).
- The Commonwealth's Department of PM & Cabinet have (so far as I can determine) removed absolutely everything to do with the convention & referendum from their website. Relevant links disabled, and (for the most part) marked with "(removed)", but otherwise I have not marked them. (In those cases where a duplicate link is available, I have substituted that link for the DPMC one.) In addition, the "www.referendum99.gov.au" site has also been removed. Some convention pages--chiefly media releases & speeches--on the PM's own website (www.pm.gov.au) are still available, although in the cases of some of the older ones you have to do a search if you want to find them. There seems to be no direct link.
- The official "Yes" & "No" case sites have both been pulled from the Net, as has "www.voteno.org.au".
- The website for the Australian College of Defence & Strategic Studies has also vanished in a puff of cyberplasm (revealing, in the process, that it was hosted on Ozemail), taking with it Brian Adams' essay on Security & Defence in an Australian Republic. Link disabled.
- A considerable number of other webpages (in some cases whole sites) have also vanished: various articles, proposed republic models, & other webpages by Peter Ballard, Zelman Cowen, Heath Craft, David Flint, Harry Gibbs, Ron Goncalves, Nigel Greenwood, Jason Clift Johnson, John C. Kellett, Geoff Kelly, Ron Kenyon, Julian Leeser, Catherine Moore, Rostram, the Search Foundation, Basil Smith, David Smith, & Heidi Zwar have gone. So have two speeches by Nick Bolkus & another by Senator Faulkner on the ALP website, a webpage by the Australian Christian Coalition, a letter by Noel McDonald, another by the National Alliance of Christian Leaders, several pages on the 1998 Convention or 1999 referendum by the CCF, an anonymous draft republican constitution at hail.icestorm.net, & the Direct Democracy Forum's page on the 1998 Convention. Also Leigh T Gillespie's draft constitution & essay have vanished. Links disabled.
- Noticed I have two different links (with different titles and content but the same URL!) by Bevan O'Regan on GWB's One Nation site, one about the proposed preamble, the other about the republic bill. Possibly a case of two different articles sharing the same address. Cannot determine which (if either) is still valid because the article now requires a user name and password to gain access to. In any case the page is no longer publicly available. Consequently have removed the links altogether.
- The Yes-&-More site has undergone a (partial) spring-cleaning. The old front page has vanished & a new (post-referendum) one substituted. It's link's consequently been moved to the Post-1999 section of Opposing Opinions. In addition, the Q&A link seems to have changed. It seemed better to move it too to Opposing Opinions (to the "In Favour" subsection).
- The ACM's handbook & paper by Kerry Jones & Alan Fitzgerald at the ACM site have also vanished from the WWW. However, that site is currently undergoing renovation, so they may eventually reappear.
- Fixed what would seem to be a blunder on my part with Alex McGavin's page on the Canning River Forum site. Wrong title, wrong author (I had that down as "Bill Bunbury"), quoting non-existent text. (Jeez!) Relocated it: from The 1999 Blueprint to Opposing Opinions.
- Removed what is now a duplicate link to Marian Sawer (et al's) paper Not Another Men's Convention! (And added the authorship for the latter.)
- Speeches & papers by Peter Costello, Nick Hobson, Bryan Palmer, & George Winterton have moved. So have various pages from Peter Crayson's site. Links fixed. Also fixed a broken link to the Virtual Convention page.
- A page at "Alen's" site has been pulled, but several others have appeared on the same site. Links disabled or added as the case requires.
- Some duplicates of Richard McGarvie's papers have vanished. Links removed. Also there was a mixup with one: fixed.
- The Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) have a new website. Various links updated.
- Fixed the link to the AEC's Constitutional Convention Election Report and Statistics page & another to Peter Andren's parliamentary speech at the Real Republic site, a page by Howard Teems, & another by George Winterton.
- Modified the URL for the Alliance for Democratic Reform's draft. While this does not exactly count as a "fix" in the sense of restoring a broken link, it does get rid in the URL of the now defunct domain naming system previously used in Australia (ie "cs.su.oz.au" -> "cs.usyd.edu.au") that may cause future problems if not corrected.
- Rediscovered the link to a page by Zita Antonious as well as some pages on the 1998 Convention at the PM's official site. Links restored.
- Added links to (pre-referendum) interviews with & articles by Kim Beazley, Greg Craven, Pip Hinman, Rona Joyner, Gary Morgan, Richard McGarvie, & Arthur Tuck.
- Added links to (post-referendum) interviews with & articles by Kim Beazley & Ron Bunton, and a pre-referendum one by Graham Young.
- Added a link to a Roy Morgan poll on the referendum taken just before the poll, as well as to various opinion polls (pre and post referendum).
- A little bit of reorganisation in the Texts of the Republic Bills part of the 1999 Blueprint section, and in place of links to the DPMC site I am making available the copies I made before they were plucked from the Net.
- I've also gone through & re-evaluated (some) of the links in Other Relevant Papers, moved some originally there to Issues & Analysis or Opposing Opinions. Link's affected: Susan Downing, Peter Howell's, Linda Kirk's, Eve Mahlab's, Pam Ryan's, & Jessica Stewart's. I have also moved the Australian Republicanism, Chronology, and History subsections holus-bolus from Other Relevant Papers into Issues & Analysis.
- 3/11/99: Another quick update, but with more of substance to add:
- Added the "Yes Coalition" & "Liberals for a Republic" to the list of unofficial "Yes" websites, plus links to several of the latter's documents. Also a link to a second (more general) ABC site on the 1999 referendum.
- Added links to opinions & press releases by Alex Blomfield, the Democratic Socialist Party, David Flint, Harry Gibbs, Julian Leeser, Ted Mack, Karin Sowada, & Heidi Zwar.
- Updated (& fixed) a link to a CCF guide to the 1999 referendum, & added another to a an electoral guide by the CCF.
- 29/10/99:
- Another quick maintenance update: have only just noticed a blunder with two of the CCF links on "republic1.html". Fixed.
- 28/10/99:
- Mostly a maintenance update, save for papers from the latest Samuel Griffiths Society volume.
- Judi Moylan's, P. Danaher's, Zita Antonious's pages on the republic have vanished, as has the extract of Tony Abbott's book "Minimal Monarchy", an overview on the WACC from the WA premier, a page from the Cyprus Mail's Internet edition, & a fact sheet from DFAT. Links disabled.
- Fixed the links to John Burge's essay & Jessica Stewart's thesis, and to a page on the republic & how it might affect the Royal Society of NSW.
- The Samuel Griffith Society's website has moved. A whole slew of links fixed.
- Links to papers by Greg Craven, David Flint, Harry Gibbs, Geoffrey Partington, David Smith, & Michael Warby.
- 27/10/99:
- Added a link to a prologue, epilogue, & four chapters of a book by Patrick O'Brien, plus two opinion polls by Roy Morgan, & another link to a Zelman Cowen address.
- Added links (sometimes more than one) to various papers, press releases, faqs, & speeches by the ALP, Kim Beazley, John Howard, Kate Lundy, Ted Mack, Marion Maddox, Patrick O'Brien, Andrew Robb, Glenister Sheil, George Williams, & the "Yes and More" coalition.
- As I did for the "no" case, I have now started a list of unofficial "yes" case sites, under the same rules as for the "yes" case ones (see the last update notes below), beginning with the "Yes and More" coalition's & ARM ones.
- Finally located the official "Yes" committee site. Link added (& moved the ARM one previously there to the Unofficial sites list).
- The ALP has put its "Yes, It's Time" jingle online for downloading. Link added.
- Added the Sydney Morning Herald's republic site to the list of news sites.
- Added a link on the Queen's role in the Commonwealth, another to the hansard for the Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum, & another to a transcript of an interview with David Flint, Greg Barnes, & Phil Cleary.
- Then there are those sites devoted to nominating somebody for president. Two found so far, one for William Deane & one for David Boon, albeit the latter may be less than serious ("Boonana republic"?). Links added.
- A policy sheet from the Australia Democrats at their site re the republic issue has gone missing, as has the "Not the World News" site, an ARM page on the history of republicanism in Australia, Leigh T. Gillespie's page, John Pyke's page, & the Dept. of the PM & Cabinet's online version of the "Republic--Yes or No" liftouts. Links disabled. Also fixed inks to Murray Goot's Labor Herald article & Ron Gancalves' republic page.
- In addition, I have also updated the links to the UNSW Law Journal's Conforum links. Although the old ones still worked, they no longer appeared to be the "official" links, so rather than wait for the old ones to become defunct I have take preventive action now. This does not exactly count as a "fix" so I have left them unmarked.
- 13/10/99:
- Added an extra link to one each of Harry Evans' & David's Smith's papers.
- Added links to a submission to the Referendum Taskforce (and another to a letter to the Federal Attorney-General) & to a page of other nations' preambles by the steering committee of the Women's Constitutional Convention. Also another to a view on the PM's draft of a proposed preamble by the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) and Australian Women Lawyers (AWL).
- Added a link to interview transcripts, letters, opinions, speeches, & papers by Bronwyn Bishop, Rev. Tim Costello, Greg Craven, Harry Evans, David Hull, Clem Jones, Kerry Jones, Wendy Machin, Andrew Murray, Sophie Panopolous, Peter Reith, Elaine Thompson, Daryl Williams, Graham Young, & Heidi Zwar.
- Also added individual links to several more parliamentary speeches on the republic bill, partly because other sites have now posted copies of the speeches in question, but mainly because these particular ones address some particular issue relating to the republic. Specifically: those of Peter Andren, Andrew Bartlett, Andrew Murray, & Natasha Stott Despoja. Note that I have only linked their major parliamentary speeches. In the case of the Democrat senators, these sites also link other speeches by these MPs, but these I have omitted because they either tend to dwell on some technicality or (lost) amendment (for example, Senator Stott Despoja's speech moving an amendment of the long title of the bill, and therefore the question to be put to the voters), or because they address side-issues only marginally related to the republic (for example, Senator Bartlett's comments on Senator Brown's speech on the republic). Those who do wish to check out these other speeches can do so by visiting the Australian Democrats speeches on the republic site.
- Added an "Official Sites" part to the Official Blueprint section, starting with the four government ones (two existing and two new) plus the official YES & NO case sites. Plus a section on news site on the 1999 referendum (beginning with "The Age" & the ABC ones).
- Added a "The Campaign (No case)" subsection in the Official Blueprint section, beginning with a list of (unofficial) "No" websites: Real Republic, Vote No Alliance, and No Republic Victoria. Note: this is not meant to be a definitive list of those sites with webpages advocating a "No" vote. Merely a list of those set up specifically for that purpose, having their own DNS address and specifically advocating the "No" cause on their frontpage. Thus, ACM's existing site is there, but not the Monarchist League's; and not those sitting on somebody else's DNS address (such as Geocities or Ozemail). (The assumption being a separate DNS address would be more likely to indicate the work of a group dedicated to that purpose rather than a single earnest individual.) A similar collection of "Yes" sites will be put together once I can find them. (The main ARM site doesn't count. It's almost certainly--I have yet to verify this--the official Yes site, and so gets listed with the other official sites elsewhere.)
- Added links to a page by Peter Ballard showing how the Constitution with the proposed republic bill's amendments incorporated to a forum site on the republic issue set up by "Affairs of State" & another at Online Opinion's site, to a site on a "Deliberative Poll" (apparently a kind of convention) to be held in Brisbane in late October, and another to a page on the republic debate at the Ipswich Workers Club. Also an annotated Convention communique at an ACM site.
- The Sydney Morning Herald & The Australian republic sites have vanished. Links disabled.
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The "what's new" list (or rather what was new) now continues here.
NOTE: Now that the Convention has come and gone, sites dealing with the republic are starting to vanish from the Net. Rather than wipe than out entirely from this page, I will so far as possible simply disable the links and leave them in place for a period in the hope that the material will resurface elsewhere.
COMING (ie when I can get the time!)
- A list of the constitutional issues (some of them technical) that will need (or at least ought!) to be resolved should there be any change to a republic.
- An essay examining various possible solutions to the above issues. (Including the pros & cons of some of the solutions found in the various drafts & other proposals around the Net.)
- The Federal Constitution incorporating some of the above solutions. (Ideally, there would be several drafts, each incorporating the main alternatives in various combinations for comparison--including alternatives for those who want to make changes but keep the monarchy.)
- "The Perils and Pitfalls of Constitution Drafting": technical difficulties with some of the draft constitutions (added to To Do list 4/5/97)
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