Paradoxer
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So they break ties with UK and commonwealth completely? Basically just don’t recognize the monarch anymore? Does this impact New Zealand at all?
The government probably structured the exact same minus recognition of British monarch. Maybe change name of some places in Australia and provinces? They could honestly use it lol. Come up with something unique
Probably still be in the Commonwealth, like India and Ireland. It wouldn't be a Commonwealth Realm, however. I'd say parliamentary republic, so just replace Governor-General with President (probably elected by parliament and all).
An elected ceremonial president replaces the Governor General and nothing else changes.
TheSwedishHistorian
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Wouldn't this affect which parties get elected and domestic matters? This would more or less be the government ruling over popular opinion on the matter wouldn't it?
It might actually make CANZUK feel less like imperial nostalgia if sharing a head of state is taken out of the equation🤷🏻♂️
I doubt it would have any long term effect. The only reason Australia hasn't already become a republic currently is because of Queen Elizabeth. Monarchism has gotten less and less popular in Australia since 1975.
Ireland isn’t in the Commonwealth, though we are still treated differently than non commonwealth nations in terms of diplomatic events and the like.
Riain
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I assume so.
No, as @Peg Leg Pom said we'd just replace the GG with a President. The 1999 republic referendum question was: "A proposed law: To alter the Constitution to establish the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth Parliament." So basically the President would be one approved by the PM and supported by 2/3 of both the House and Senate, which may not require the support of the Opposition during certain Parliaments.
Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia on 16th September 1975. Does PNG become a republic by default if Australia becomes a republic before that date?
This is of course the most vital question.
After the ACTU general strike causes a reversal of the dismissal, the nascent People’s Republic will almost certainly need the help of Hungarian social democrats from ‘56 in purging the remnant Ustase in Australia.
There is no halfway house. A dismissal which results in left constitutional government under Whitlam is not going to be able to pass a republic referendum. A Fraser government won’t move one. A People’s Republic is so far beyond the prompt that the composition of the republic is less interesting than why the ACTU pulled the finger out under Hawke.