Newspoll
has their history of opinion polling on a republic online. The question that is asked is; Are you personally in favour or against Australia being a republic?. Graph inside.
This is built from the Newspoll/Australia data;
Republican Poll 23/01/2006
. I took approximately one data point each year, around the middle of the year, so that the large amount of polling done in the late 90s doesn't skew the visual representation of the graph.
Unfortunately there was no data between 91 and 87, which may make the drop in support for those Against seem more dramatic than it really is.
Even though support for has wavered around the 50% line, hovering slightly above and below; since the 1994 those against have been fairly consistently only approximately 35% of respondents.
The Keating Government's advocacy of a republic certainly made the issue mainstream, and its constant location in the media since has definitely had an effect on how Australians think of, and relate to a republic.
Since 1996 when the predominantly monarchical and 'ain't broke, don't fix it' conservative Howard Government took power, support for and against a republic has been consistent.
For this the
Australian Republican Movement
needs to be congratulated. It is one of the longest lasting formal republican organisations in Australia. Too often in Australian history, organising republicans has been like herding cats.
Even though I disagree with the minimal republicanism of the ARM, and the Dutton/Horne principles for a Republic, it is likely they have an influence on these polls. Especially as they have soldiered on diligently after the defeat of the referendum in 1999.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
