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It’s time for some straight talk about
Australia’s future.
We need a head of state who
shares a genuine affinity with our country. True
independence does not require us to relinquish affection
for the Queen or downplay excitement about a royal birth
or wedding. Rather it is a chance for national renewal,
and to lend an Australian dignity to the highest office
in the land. In short: to decide what kind of country we
want to live in.
Featuring forewords by Malcolm
Turnbull and Wayne Swan, Project Republic
unites a range of passionate Australian voices to show
why Australia must become a republic - and how we can
get there from here.
Contributors include Henry
Reynolds, Thomas Keneally, Larissa Behrendt, John Hirst,
Julian Morrow, Helen Irving, Mark Tredinnick, John
Warhurst, David Morris, George Williams, Joy McCann,
Erika Smith, Anthony Dillon, Paul Pickering, James
Curran, David Donovan and George
Winterton.
About the
editors:
Mark McKenna is
one of Australia’s leading historians and the author of
several prize-winning books, most recently a biography
of Manning Clark, An Eye for Eternity, which
won the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and the
Victorian, NSW, Queensland and South Australian
premiers’ non-fiction awards.
Benjamin Thomas
Jones has taught Australian and British history
at the Australian National University and the University
of Sydney. He has published several articles on
Australia’s republican history and is currently writing
a book on republicanism in the former British
colonies.
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