And I’m not 100% sure what I think of those thoughts…
And so the question today for Australia is not to do with his coronation but with ourselves, that we should in the end and at last decide on the republic and not talk ourselves out of voting yes for it. So that’s the question still. Not the coronation today and the mystique of monarchy. Our own intent is the point. Australian republicans can say God save the king! Because Charles is not the problem, and in any case is still our constitutional head of state until we do something about that. The lies of politicians who pretend that Mandarin will become Australia’s chief language, that there will be tanks in the street, that the milk will turn to blood if we give up elitist monarchy for fraternal republic – they are the problem with this process. They are rustling up equivalent misrepresentations to hinder the voice vote.
I mean, on one hand, yeah? I do think Australia will go republic at some point that I may even live to see; it might even be sooner rather than later (assuming Albo gets re-elected and sticks to his promise about a referendum in his second term, so we may get it as early as 2025). But I don’t know that it’s the monarchists who are the problem; rather, it’s the republicans… or at any rate, it’s the Australian Republican Movement‘s insistence upon the “Australian Choice Model”…
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