Tag: Queen Elizabeth
After Oprah: what will it take to revive an Australian republic?
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Oprah Winfrey’s brilliantly stage-managed “tell-all” interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was for viewers, advertisers and the three participants, a tremendous success.
For the...
From Elvis to Dolly, celebrity endorsements might be the key to countering vaccine hesitancy
Brazilian football star Pele getting the COVID vaccine in Sao Paulo. Advice of Pele/Handout/EPA
The Australian government has secured close to 54 million doses of the...
‘Palace letters’ reveal the palace’s fingerprints on the dismissal of the Whitlam government
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The “palace letters” show the Australian Constitution’s susceptibility to self-interested behaviour by individual vice-regal representatives. They also reveal the vulnerability of...
The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal
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Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia,...
Four things the Paradise Papers tell us about global business and political elites
Trouble in paradise: Bermuda is at the
centre of the Paradise Papers leak
The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar – leaked documents from a law...