4 May 2023

Republican Peter FitzSimons on the coronation

From First Up, 5:35 am on 4 May 2023

As Royalists are getting revved up for the big shindig in London this weekend - republicans have also been getting worked up in their own way. Among them - former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons who's a staunch republican, he's been the chair of the Australian Republican Movement for 7 years Bear with us - the phone line across the Tasman sounds like it mightn't have been upgraded since the last Coronation ...but, Nathan Rarere started by asking Peter if he'd be swearing allegiance to the new king - as his subjects have been asked to do.