blackbox wrote:



Didn't Australia just vote to keep the monarchy? I believe we did and
voted to continue to be ruled by the UK.

I didn't vote for the system to be altered because they didn't offer a
directly elected option, and if the claytons republic option had gotten
through then no second chance would have been available.

This way the republic is still on the agenda and there is likely to be
another referendum in the medium term (say the next 20 years), with a good
chance it'll include a directly elected president (or Judge Advocate
General) or whatever you want to call the re-named directly elected
replacement for the govenor general.


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