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The Australian Monarchist League was founded in 1943 to support the role of the Crown in Australia's constitutional system. A crown is a symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a god, for whom the crown is traditionally one of the symbols of power and legitimacy (See Regalia for a broader treatment). ...
The Australian Monarchist League was originally a branch of the Monarchist League in London. However, due to the growing battle with Australian Republicans it was felt that the League in Sydney needed to be seen to be a wholly Australian body to defer criticisms that it was just an offshoot of a UK group, and it severed its affiliation with the London body in 1993, becoming an independent group. See Monarchist League for similar organisations The International Monarchist League (or Monarchist League) is an organization dedicated to the preservation of the constitutional monarchy system of government and the principle of monarchy worldwide. ...
The Australian Republican Movement was founded in July 1991. ...
The League has some 2,500 members across Australia, and claims an additional 20,000 supporters. The League has Branches in each State and the ACT, and is headquartered in Sydney. It is a not-for-profit organisation and all office bearers, including the National Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the League, Philip Benwell MBE are elected by the membership and serve on a voluntary basis. The League receives no public or corporate funding and is financed solely by subscriptions and contributions from its members. The Australian States and Territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ...
Capital Canberra Government Constitutional monarchy Administrator none Chief Minister Jon Stanhope (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 2 - Senate seats 2 Gross Territorial Product (2006) - Product ($m) $19,167 (6th) - Product per capita $57,303/person (1st) Population (End of November 2006) - Population 333,667 (7th) - Density 137. ...
MBE can stand for: Member of the Order of the British Empire Mail Boxes Etc. ...
The League recently established a Trust with a number of prominent Australian businessmen as Trustees. The purpose of the Trust is to raise and invest substantial contributions to be used only in the event of a plebiscite and/or future referendum.
A number of League delegates attended the 1998 Constitutional Convention where they actively opposed progress towards and Australian Republic. League member, Brigadier Alf Garland AM, recounted his family loyalty to the British crown tracing back to medieval times holding up debate for some time. In Australian history, the term Constitutional Convention refers to five distinct gatherings. ...
Look up AM, A.M., Am, am, a. ...
The League then worked as part of the 'No Republic' campaign during the lead up to Australia's 1999 Republic Referendum which was defeated with 54.4% of electors voting 'NO' nationally. The Referendum also failed in all States. [1] The 1999 Australian referendum was a two question referendum held on 6 November 1999. ...
While Australians for Constitutional Monarchy simply campaigns to maintain Australia's constitutional status quo, the League's Chairman, an ardent champion of the Prince of Wales, has spoken out against what what he terms as the dangers to the British Crown by the European Union. He is a popular speaker at gatherings both in Australia and internationally [2] and has spoken on several occasions to meetings in the House of Lords. [3] [4] He is also held to have been an influence in the failure of a Bill proposed by Lord Dubs to amend the Act of Settlement. [5] Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) is a group that aims to preserve Australias current constitutional system, with Britains Queen Elizabeth 2 as head of state. ...
The British monarch or Sovereign is the monarch and head of state of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, and is the source of all executive, judicial and (as the Queen_in_Parliament) legislative power. ...
Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth is a United Kingdom politician. ...
The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm 3 c. ...
Benwell is also the author of In Defence of Australia's Constitutional Monarchy, (ISBN 0-7734-6696-7) [6] which was published by Mellen Press in 2003. He is one of the League's Patrons, the first of which was the late Dame Pattie Menzies GBE, wife of former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies.[7] Robert and Pattie Menzies in the 1940s Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, GBE (2 March 1899 - 30 August 1995), was the wife of Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. ...
The Prime Minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia, holding office on commission from the Governor-General. ...
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ...
See also The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (in full, An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia) is the primary constitutional text of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Emergence of the Commonwealth of Australia Main article: Australian federation After European settlement in 1788, Australia was politically organized as a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all. ...
Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box: A constitutional monarchy or limited monarchy is a form of government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges an elected or hereditary monarch as head of state, as opposed to an absolute monarchy, where the monarch is not...
Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) is a group that aims to preserve Australias current constitutional system, with Britains Queen Elizabeth 2 as head of state. ...
The Coat of Arms of the Monarchist League of Canada, granted with permission of Her Majesty The Queen in 2000. ...
Queen Elizabeth IIs personal flag for New Zealand The Monarchist League of New Zealand, Inc. ...
External links - Australian Monarchist League
- Monarchist Forum
Footnotes - ^ Australian Electoral Commission
- ^ (SEE SOVEREIGNTY - THOUSAND RALLY IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE)
- ^ European Institute of Protestant Studies
- ^ Ensign Message
- ^ The England Project
- ^ Mellen Press
- ^ List of Patrons
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