The Commonwealth Conversation

H.M. The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, highlighted the Commonwealth’s Relevance in its 60th Anniversary Year during her 2009 Christmas Broadcast. Her speech also featured video interviews with delegates at the Commonwealth Youth Forum in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Commonwealth Youth Caucus got together with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association to make a radio feature on the next Head of the Commonwealth. One caller thought Prince Charles was the link between modernity and tradition. Have a listen…What do you think?

Savage, a co-founder of the New Zealand Republican Movement has written the following contribution to the Commonwealth Conversation:

There is a belief perpetuated in Britain and other Commonwealth countries that the British Empire was of benefit to the world. The greed and racism are forgotten. The invasions, wars, political oppression and genocide are downplayed. The poverty and inequality it created are conveniently ignored.

Just as the Crown was essential to the evolution of the world?s most successful system of governance, the Westminster model, so it has been at the very centre of the long evolution of the Commonwealth.

Iain Hunter, a Canadian journalist writing for the Times Colonist, asks why so many of us will react with a yawn to discussion of the Commonwealth.

It looks like our polling results have caused a bit of a stir in Australia.

Today I had an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian Newspaper, about what our poll results mean there…