This paper describes six different models for an Australian republic.

It is intended to stimulate an ongoing public discussion and comments are welcome. The ARM does not advocate one model over the others, nor does it suggest that this list is exhaustive of republican models.

There are of course many ways of choosing an Australian president. An informed, lively community debate, conducted in a spirit of compromise will be the best way of devising a republic that sits easily within our democratic traditions. If each of us insists on his or her conception of the perfect republic then we will never have any republic in Australia.

For each model, we have provided the detailed amendments to the Constitution of the new operative clauses being those which deal with the powers of the President and the method of election.

There are some important threshold issues which need to be considered before proceeding to the models.