Republic will come

READER Lorraine Voss says “At the time of the 1999 republican referendum the people voted to stay with a constitutional monarchy” (Letters, April 4). This is quite wrong. What the people did was to reject the model selected by Prime Minister Howard. Howard knew that the model he put up for the referendum was not the preferred one, and would fail. Ms Voss asks “Are we to allow the ARM another costly referendum every 20 years just because they lost?” The driving forces behind any worthwhile reform — whether it be anti-

Monash an innovator

GENERAL Sir John Monash, GCME, KCB, VD, will be turning in his grave at the improper use of his name by The Monash Forum to spruik coal-fired power stations in this day and age. Monash is rightly honoured to this day for his modern and innovative approach to winning trench warfare. It’s now four generations since he took the same innovative and determined approach to developing the waterlogged brown coalfields of Gipps-

Not landscapes to me

I MET someone I hadn’t seen for ages and she thought John Glover would be turning in his grave if he saw what was hung on the walls for the Glover Exhibition! There were some which we could see what they were about. including people’s choice, but as for the others. If the committee had 420 to choose from, why did they pick so many that were crappy? There was one which was a very dubious colour and looked as if it had dog biscuit ends. Where was the landscape in that? Even the rabbits would have been hard put to recognise their home. Let’s hope that next year we have paintings that are worth paying to see.