Australian Republicanism in the interwar years?

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How strong was the Australian Republican movement in the interwar years? I haven't been able to find any good sources on the matter.

Was it strong enough that, with perhaps a push in the right direction, it could have formed a republic?

If not, what would have to happen to make it so?
 
I'm really hardpressed to think of any small 'r' republicans during the nineteen twenties and thirties who weren't either communists or fascists.

In which case there isn't a 'movement' per se, not unless you want to combine the CPA and things like the Australia First Movement, with various offshoots of the Rightwing militia groups (the fabled Captain DeGroot must have flirted with republicanism at some point, he did eventually move to Eire).
 
I'm really hardpressed to think of any small 'r' republicans during the nineteen twenties and thirties who weren't either communists or fascists.

In which case there isn't a 'movement' per se, not unless you want to combine the CPA and things like the Australia First Movement, with various offshoots of the Rightwing militia groups (the fabled Captain DeGroot must have flirted with republicanism at some point, he did eventually move to Eire).

No the New Guard were firmly anti-Democratic, De Groot wouldn't have been a republican.
 
Sections of the non-bolshevik radical left were republican, but this is basically the era when the labour left and labor left are coterminous and softly shade off into small c communism.

Trades Hall reds etc.

Also, republicanism isn't an issue today either particularly, its an infight between two bourgeois factions about the irrelevancy of titling one official "Governor General" or "President" (appointed).

Best chance for Australian republicanism is to withhold democracy in the 19th century, particularly in Victoria.

yours,
Sam R.
 
Oh this might be a helpful place for a question I had. I have a timeline in which things go drastically different after the initial POD of Hitler being killed in the Beer Hall Putsch. As a result of this POD and the butterflies, there is no Second World War. But I have a question about Australia. In the 1950's, the British scrap with the Croix de Feu French over Belgium and France gets curb stomped. But as a result of a French raid on Kerala, a war begins in India. The Indian War lasts from 1952 until 1965.Now in this timeline, how would Australia respond to the war in India. I have South Africa pulling their troops in 1956 breaking with the Commonwealth formally. There are protests in Canada but Im not sure what would happen in Australia. I think a very likely occurrence is the domination of a right wing government, as a backlash to the popularity and growth of Strasserist National Socialism. In 1960 there is a National Socialist party in some form in control of the government of France and China. There is a minority party in the Korean Free State, and National Socialist bandits are active in the Peoples Republic of Korea. In Great Britain, the National Socialist British Workers Party has split the vote for second with Labour and hold a mutually favorable Minority Coalition against the Conservative powerhouse.

So what I was wondering is, do you think that in this different TL, that Australia could become heavily Right wing, or would go down a more Socialist path.
 
No the New Guard were firmly anti-Democratic, De Groot wouldn't have been a republican.
not just anti-democratic, pretty pro-monarchist.

Of course the New Guard and Old Guard were deeply monarchist, but I'm speculating about the plasticity of Francis De Groot's personal views, as he did die in Dublin during the nineteen sixties.

It seems the most comphrensive bio of him is entitled 'Irish Fascist Australian Legend'. If he was quietly republican then that's no less ridiculous than the fact that there were Jews in the New Guard, even if it just points to the willingness of people to marginalise themselves for greater causes.

(I disagree about the NG being as resolutely anti-democrat as they were pro-royalist, inasmuch as they had the typical self-serving 'guided democracy' views that many authoritarians have.)

Sections of the non-bolshevik radical left were republican, but this is basically the era when the labour left and labor left are coterminous and softly shade off into small c communism.

Trades Hall reds etc.

Also, republicanism isn't an issue today either particularly, its an infight between two bourgeois factions about the irrelevancy of titling one official "Governor General" or "President" (appointed).

I imagine the pre-Stalinist Left and New Left have interesting contributions to make to this subject.
 
Yeah, ..... No. Sorry, it took until 1942, the bombing of Dariwn, the submarine penetration of Sydney and perception of Japanese invasion to ratify the statute of Westminster. Maybe some people were republican, but in a time of great national stress the governments elected by the people were not even willing to assert Australia`s judicial independence.
 
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