http://australianpolitics.com Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:23:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth AustralianPolitics.com no Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://australianpolitics.com/category/executive/keating http://australianpolitics.com/2011/07/15/keating-carbon-tax-lateline.html http://australianpolitics.com/2011/07/15/keating-carbon-tax-lateline.html#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:04:35 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4317 http://australianpolitics.com/2011/07/15/keating-carbon-tax-lateline.html/feed 2 http://australianpolitics.com/2008/08/23/paul-keating-nothing-but-the-man.html http://australianpolitics.com/2008/08/23/paul-keating-nothing-but-the-man.html#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:19:06 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=425 http://australianpolitics.com/2008/08/23/paul-keating-nothing-but-the-man.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2006/06/02/paul-keating-launches-the-longest-decade.html http://australianpolitics.com/2006/06/02/paul-keating-launches-the-longest-decade.html#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:50:59 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=3518 http://australianpolitics.com/2006/06/02/paul-keating-launches-the-longest-decade.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2002/07/05/john-curtins-world-and-ours-keating-speech.html http://australianpolitics.com/2002/07/05/john-curtins-world-and-ours-keating-speech.html#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:05:36 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4882 http://australianpolitics.com/2002/07/05/john-curtins-world-and-ours-keating-speech.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2000/03/30/engaging-with-paul-keating.html http://australianpolitics.com/2000/03/30/engaging-with-paul-keating.html#comments Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:56:59 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4880 http://australianpolitics.com/2000/03/30/engaging-with-paul-keating.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/10/queens-representative-to-open-olympic-games.html http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/10/queens-representative-to-open-olympic-games.html#comments Wed, 10 Nov 1999 04:02:29 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=3387 http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/10/queens-representative-to-open-olympic-games.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/06/will-australia-vote-for-a-republic.html http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/06/will-australia-vote-for-a-republic.html#comments Fri, 05 Nov 1999 21:13:10 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=3367 http://australianpolitics.com/1999/11/06/will-australia-vote-for-a-republic.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/1995/06/07/an-australian-republic-the-way-forward.html http://australianpolitics.com/1995/06/07/an-australian-republic-the-way-forward.html#comments Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:30:40 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4667 http://australianpolitics.com/1995/06/07/an-australian-republic-the-way-forward.html/feed 2 John Howard,Paul Keating,Republic Advisory Committee by Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia - This is the text of the speech Paul Keating, Prime Minister, delivered to the House of Representatives, announcing the government's commitment to the establishment of an Australian federal republic by 2001. by Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia This is the text of the speech Paul Keating, Prime Minister, delivered to the House of Representatives, announcing the government's commitment to the establishment of an Australian federal republic by 2001. Listen to Keating's Speech: PLAY Listen to John Howard's comments on the announcement: PLAY Transcript of Paul Keating's Republic speech in the House of Representatives, June 7, 1995. It is the Government's view that Australia's Head of State should be an Australian and that Australia should become a republic by the year 2001. Tonight I shall describe the means by which we believe this ought to be done. Honourable members will recall that to fulfil an undertaking given during the last election campaign, on April 28 1993 the Government established a Republic Advisory Committee to prepare an options paper which would describe the minimum constitutional changes necessary to create a federal republic of Australia. The Republic Advisory Committee was chaired by Mr Malcolm Turnbull and comprised Dr Glyn Davis, Miss Namoi Dougall, the Hon Nick Greiner, Dr John Hirst, Ms Mary Kostakidis, Miss Lois O'Donoghue, the Hon Susan Ryan and Professor George Winterton. I take this opportunity to thank them. They consulted widely throughout Australia, carried out their work with dedication and energy and delivered to the Government and to posterity a most valuable document. In the eighteen months which have passed since the release of the Report, the idea of an Australian republic has come to occupy a central place in our national political debate: not only in this Parliament but within the political parties, in major representative and community bodies, in schools and universities, communities at large and, I daresay, around countless Australian dinner tables. In the process many Australians have come to favour a Republic. Just as many, perhaps, now believe it is inevitable. Many may regret the prospect of change and be unsure about the means by which it can be achieved, but recognise that sooner or later we must have an Australian as our Head of State. That one small step would make Australia a republic. Governments can wait for opinion to force their hand, or they can lead. They can wait for the world to change and respond as necessity demands, or they can see the way the world is going and point the way. We are approaching the 21st century and the centenary of our nationhood. As never before we are making our own way in our region and the world. For us the world is going - and we are going - in a way, which makes our having the British monarch as our Head of State increasingly anomalous. The fact is that if the plans for our nationhood were being drawn up now, by this generation of Australians and not those of a century ago, it is beyond question that we would make our Head of State an Australian. Any suggestion that the 3ritish monarch should fill the role would not be entertained. This is not because our generation lacks respect for the British monarchy, or the British people, or our British heritage, or the British institutions we have made our own, or our long friendship with the British in peace and war. On the contrary, Australians everywhere respect them, as they respect The Queen. But they are not Australian. It is so obvious, that if we were just now drawing up our constitution, we probably would not even feel the need to say that the Australian I lead of State will be Australian - it would go without saying. That it does not go without saying today is an accident of history. We are attached to Great Britain by long threads of kinship and affection which, to a considerable extent, are embodied in the warmth of our regard for Queen Elizabeth. Many Australians may well feel that to substitute an Australian for the monarchy constitutes in some way a rejection of these ties. I think all of us can understand these feelings. 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