Australian Republicanism A Reader

by McKenna, Mark; Hudson, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9780522850703
• ISBN10: 0522850707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-15
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

Countering the tendency in contemporary scholarship to conflate republicanism with nationalism and independence from Britain, this study examines Australian republicanism in terms of the different ways Australians have imagined themselves as civic beings. A wide range of primary material is used to illuminate the different types of republicanism that have emerged in the political and social dialogues. Contained are documents pertaining to republicanism, citizenship, identity, and government that cover the early colonial years to the present day.

Author Biography

Mark McKenna is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Science Program at the Australian National University, Canberra. Wayne Hudson is Professor of History and Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Griffith University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xiii
Abbreviatons	xiv
Introduction	1	(12)
Part One 1788--1856 A Deep Undercurrent of Republicanism that will Someday Burst Forth and Astonish the World
Common Sense and the Rights of Man	13	(2)
A T-shirt for Tom Paine	13	(1)
The Rights of Man	14	(1)
The Rights of Freeborn Britons	15	(5)
Wentworth Demands the Liberties of Englishmen	16	(1)
Man of the People	17	(1)
An Independent New South Wales --- a Helpless Joey?	17	(1)
Australia in the colonial world of 1827	17	(2)
Reformers Can Be Loyal to the Parent-Land	19	(1)
The Currency Lad	20	(4)
Cheap and Wise Government	20	(1)
Taxation by Representation	21	(1)
The Threat of Revolution	22	(1)
Not the Work of Emancipists	23	(1)
A Matter of Timing?	24	(7)
Note to the Tree of Liberty (A Song for the Future)	24	(2)
Taxation in the Context of the Republican Tradition	26	(5)
Threatening Revolution	31	(5)
The Queen does not Govern	31	(1)
Colonial Government, Internal and External	32	(1)
The Great Protest Meeting: Circular Quay 1849	33	(3)
A Republic of Thieves?	36	(8)
Britons Protest As Part of the British Tradition	37	(1)
Not Another America	38	(1)
The Anti-Transportation Movement	39	(1)
The Prerogative and the Anti-Transportation Crisis	40	(1)
Looking to America	41	(1)
War and Republicanism	42	(2)
The Bunyip Aristocracy	44	(15)
Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia	45	(2)
The Constitution Debates 1853	47	(1)
A Bunyip Aristocracy?	48	(4)
Not Ripe for Independence	52	(1)
Henry Parkes on Republicanism	53	(1)
There is Nothing Majestic in a Republic	54	(1)
The New Constitution (Br Britannicus)	55	(1)
A Glorious Republic	55	(1)
A Deep Undercurrent of Republicanism	56	(1)
Advance Australia	57	(2)
The Republic of Victoria	59	(10)
A Republic in Two Years?	59	(1)
Declaration of Independence	60	(2)
The `Radical Language' of the Colonial Office	62	(1)
Colonial Loyalty	62	(1)
The Republic of Victoria	63	(1)
National Independence The Only Remedy	64	(1)
A Lesson in Political Definitions	65	(4)
PART TWO 1856--1901 A Commonwealth for the British Race, a Commonwealth under the Crown
Keeping the Magic	69	(6)
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution	70	(1)
Separate, Independent and Self-governing Republics	71	(1)
The Coming Republic	72	(3)
Treading Disloyalty into the Dust	75	(14)
A Demonstration without Parallell in Australia	76	(2)
Henry Parkes Speaking from the Safety of an Upstairs Room	78	(1)
The Voice of the People	79	(6)
Insurrectionary War and the Desolation of a Thousand Households	85	(4)
A Centenary to Celebrate?	89	(13)
If it ain't broke don't fix it!	90	(1)
Australia for the Australians	91	(1)
Lawson on Loyalty	91	(2)
A Song of the Republic	93	(1)
Lawson on Imperial Federation	94	(1)
The Centennial Year	95	(2)
A Neglected History	97	(2)
A Republic Without the Chinese	99	(1)
Royalty and Nobility	100	(2)
Republicanism in Queensland in the 1890s	102	(11)
The Chief Justice of Queensland Votes for Australian Independence	103	(2)
Republicanism and Revolutions	105	(2)
Charters Towers' Republicanism	107	(1)
Manifesto of the Australasian Republican Association	108	(1)
Republicanism and Socialism	109	(2)
Independence Peacefully Achieved	111	(2)
Debating Federation Under the Crown	113	(28)
The Namby-Pamby Republicans in the Macquarie Street Den	114	(1)
Governed by the People	115	(1)
Reasons for Republicanism	116	(1)
Some Tocsin Objections to the Federal Bill and Why You Should Vote Against it	117	(2)
No Representation Without Social Justice	119	(1)
A Letter from Hay	120	(1)
Federation Under the Crown?	121	(2)
National Australasian Convention, Sydney, 1891	123	(3)
Why The Commonwealth of Australia?	126	(2)
Cardinal Moran on the Federal Convention	128	(2)
Colonial Parliaments of the 1890s	130	(6)
New South Wales	130	(2)
Victoria	132	(1)
South Australia	132	(2)
Queensland	134	(2)
Dual Citizenship	136	(5)
PART THREE 1901--2001 Still Captive after all These Years: Imagining the Republic
The 1920 Royal Tour: Labor and the British Connection	141	(12)
Ambassador of Race	142	(2)
Cheering Crowd	144	(2)
Boosting a Bad Breakfast Food	146	(1)
Australian Labor and the British Connection	147	(2)
Letter to the Editor	149	(1)
Labor and Republicanism I	150	(1)
Labor and Republicanism II	151	(2)
Irish Separatism, Loyalty Rallies, and the Burning of the Union Jack	153	(17)
Irish Demonstration	154	(1)
Who is a true citizen of Australia?	155	(3)
The ALP and the Domain Doings	158	(1)
The Real Disloyalty	159	(1)
It's Our Flag	160	(1)
Avenge the Insult to the Flag	161	(2)
A Menace to White Australia	163	(7)
The 1954 Royal Tour	170	(8)
Abolish Empire Day	171	(1)
The `Democratic' Monarchy	172	(3)
The Function of the Crown	175	(1)
2000 Faint in Big Crush	176	(2)
Ending the Affair 1960--1991: Republican Sentiment Increases	178	(12)
British Subject	179	(1)
The Lucky Country --- a Republic?	180	(3)
Changing the Avant-Garde At Buckingham Palace	183	(1)
Kerr and the Consequences	184	(1)
The People and the Constitution	185	(2)
Censored: Franca Arena on the need for a Republic	187	(3)
Recasting Australia: 1991--1996, The Keating Years	190	(33)
Propaganda for the Republic	193	(2)
The Conservative Case for an Australian Republic	195	(2)
A Toast to the Postmodern Republic	197	(1)
Why We Need the Republic	198	(3)
Self respect for Australia	201	(2)
Starting the Process	203	(4)
An Australian Republic	207	(9)
The Way Forward	216	(7)
The 1998 Constitutional Convention	223	(26)
Excerpts from the Proceedings	227	(22)
The 1999 Republic Referendum	249	(24)
An Indigenous Perspective	252	(3)
Yes/No Referendum `99, The case for voting `No'	255	(6)
Yes/No Referendum `99, The case for voting `Yes'	261	(3)
Safe, Workable and Accountable	264	(2)
No to an Elected President	266	(1)
There's No Need to Change a System that's Working Well	267	(4)
Ballot Papers for the Referendum	271	(1)
Results of the Referendum by State	272	(1)
Epilogue	273	(3)
Notes	276	(3)
Select Bibliography	279	(4)
Index	283