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Australian Notes

Australian notes

9 June 2018

9:00 AM

9 June 2018

9:00 AM

On Republicanism

The spectacle of so many grisly celebrities clustered together at the royal wedding reminded me why I was once a fervent republican. When I joined the Melbourne University Republican Club in 1967 as a founding member, I must confess that my colleagues and myself had not given a lot of thought to the issue of a republic.

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