The history of Australian Republicanism has been dominated by the primary figures having a libertarian streak, and an individualistic stance that often placed the Republican movement on a back foot for lack of organisation. John Dunmore Lang founded the Australian League in 1849 to promote Republicanism, but it did not have any staying power. Until the Australian Republican Movement's founding in 1991 there was no real formal Australian Republican organization. Prominent Australian Republicans, such as Charles Harpur and Frederick Vosper have been more inclined to view Republicanism as an individualistic expression of civicism.
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This is the transcript of the speech that Daniel Deniehy gave at the Victorian theatre in Sydney, and the speech that effectively removed William Wentworth's desire to have an aristocracy created in Australia and reflected in a titled upper house of NSW. It was no longer publicly palatable. As it was, the NSW government ended up with an appointed Senate anyway.
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cam : Deniehy\'s speech is out of copyright: By a fair amount, so you can use that however you want.
If you mean by the comments I put in about Wentworth, James MacArthur and the antipodes - then using them is fine by me. Probably some form of accreditation for the extra comments would be nice, as well as notification when your book is published ;)
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