Republic newsletter

This page lists the editions of our quarterly campaign newsletter, Republic. To subscribe, sign up here.

June 2012 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Royal Tour costs: How much? We can't say... yet!
  • Commonwealth Advisory Bureau: Queen should be last head of Commonwealth
  • Top Award for Phil
  • New Zealand: where people are judged on their abilities
  • Opinion: New Zealanders should decide how we choose our Head of State by Mike Wilkinson

April 2012 Newsletter

In this edition:

  • Kiwis and Kangaroos
  • Female support for King Charles fades
  • New Zealand republic "most obvious question" missing from constitutional review
  • No intervention by the Queen in Cathedral demolition
  • Matariki, Queen's Birthday holidays debated
  • Jamaica: 44% republic, 40% status quo
  • "Jamaica Disease": republicanism spreads in the Commonwealth
  • Modern Commonwealth let down by RCS
  • Opinion: Another way to choose the Head of State by Colin MacGillivray

February 2012 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Looking to the future
  • Draft policy statement asks: where are we headed?
  • Jamaica republic in 2012
  • UMR Mood of the Nation
  • Labour group on Facebook
  • Lloyd Morrison, 1957 - 2012, flag campaigner
  • Prince of Wales to visit New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea: another coup?
  • Canada: Liberals vote on republic
  • New survey on New Zealand republic
  • Opinion: Diamonds for an old Queen

October 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • AGM and dinner this Saturday
  • Succession laws to change
  • Monarchist leader wins nomination for safe seat
  • Elias replaces Mataparae
  • Editorial: where was Mataparae at the RWC?
  • Higgins elected Irish head of state
  • John Key on Knighthoods: "I decide"

August 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Constitutional Review panel announced
  • Sir Paul Reeves, former Governor-General and NZ republic supporter, mourned
  • Colonel Allen Bell: a pioneer republican in 1911
  • Canadian military reinstates royal names
  • Government House: the reserve powers
  • Republican Movement policy review and statement

July 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Hone Harawira raises oaths debate
  • Lewis Holden on Think Tank
  • 20th Anniversary of the Australian Republican Movement
  • Royal wedding for a 'lesser royal'
  • New constitution for the Republic of Iceland
  • Opinion: Swearing at the Crown

May 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Governor-General visits Finnish republic
  • Republican Movement's latest poll results
  • News media promote wedding spectacle
  • UK police arrest republic supporters at their home
  • UK poll results
  • Radio documentary: For King and Country
  • Royal Wedding satire
  • Opinion: Let's not wait until the Queen dies

March 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • Republican poll predicts Mataparae's appointment
  • Republicans infiltrate Government House re-opening
  • BBC bosses meet republicans to discuss Royal Wedding bias
  • Women's Weekly editor airs her republican sympathies
  • European Republican Movements Unite for 2025
  • Opinion: The Royal Firm's In PR Overdrive!

February 2011 newsletter

In this edition:

  • And the Winner is...
  • Campaign suspended after earthquake
  • Ratings fall for Queen's Christmas Day Speech
  • Protest at palace tomorrow: "What have they got to hide?"
  • LOVE REPUBLIC: The alternative wedding celebrations