South Australia - Politics
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There must be here less of Downing-Street regime; more of democratic influence. But to this effort the people must rouse themselves to political action. A false autocracy may sink this colony to perdition, but democratic institutions may elevate it to the very highest point of power and felicity.
(Adelaide Times, 26 June 1851, page 3b.)
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Republicanism
This subject was raised in parliament and a correspondent to the Observer had this to say on 12 August 1854, page 4:
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Certain hon. members... seemed to consider that the youth of this colony, being republicans, do not sympathise with their fatherland in this struggle for freedom. That a strong spirit of republicanism exists here is not improbable, but what right have these gentlemen to assume that a republican does not feel affection and sympathy for his country, although he may not think his form of government the best?... It is strange too that they should confuse republicanism with a wish for separation from the mother country...
It is a pity that on an occasion when all party and local strife should have been forgotten, men should have allowed a bigoted attachment to their own views to lead them to stir up ill-feeling, and brand those who differ from them in opinions with the charge of treason and want of patriotism.
In a letter to the Advertiser, 7 April 1921, page 14d, Mr L.C. Hunkin says, inter alia:
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The advocacy of an Australian Republic is not singular to the Labor Party. It was once advocated by that present champion of Liberalism, the Minister for the Navy.
"Empire or Republic", a lecture by Rev G.A. Judkins, is in the Advertiser,
13 April 1922, page 10i; also see
15 April 1922, page 15e.
