As it currently stands, there is no way that you or any other Australian could ever aspire to be Australia’s head of state. But do you really care? Republicans definitely do, and that is why they are fighting for an Australian president to replace the Queen.
See the arguments for and against at the Act Now website and place your comments b y clicking on this link.
Fleur Bitcon, writing in the Herald Sun seems to think that "handsome" Prince Harry visiting Australia, as it seems he is planning to do later in the year, will stir up the republic debate. What do you think?
I would have loved to have seen the look on David Flint's face when he read this story.
Dear Members,
May was another busy and productive month.
Sydney, 20 May 2008
A meeting of republican groups in Sydney last weekend called on the Government to make an early announcement of the process leading to a decision by the people on Australia becoming a republic.
By David Murray| 6 June 2008
MOST Australians do not want to create a republic while Queen Elizabeth II is still on the throne, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has claimed.
"It's our Government's policy that we move to an Australian republic but the Prime Minister has made it clear it's not something that he sees as being our first priority," Mr Smith said on a visit to London.
By Emily Sherlock| 8 June, 2008
IF ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr gets his way Canberrans may be celebrating their last Queen's Birthday long weekend.
Instead of honouring our monarch we could soon be honouring our children, with the minister calling for the Queen's Birthday break to be renamed the Kids' Day long weekend.
By Phillip Hudson | 14 June 2008
THE Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, says a directly elected president would be a "risk" to political stability and may lead to friction between the head of state and prime minister.
By Dr Glenn Davies| 30 March 2008
The Governor-General is the Patron-in-Chief of the Constitutional Education Fund Australia (CEF-A), which financially supports an annual Governor-General's prize for undergraduate students.
