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The problems with that vote last time were that neither alternative was particularly palatable (each designed to help someone be the first president, long term
by gumby 3y ago
The problems with that vote last time were that neither alternative was particularly palatable (each designed to help someone be the first president, long term be damned) and worse, that there were two republican choices at all, in order to split the republican vote.
So we still have a “constitution” that’s simply a law passed in Westminster.
I despair that the country will become a republic in my lifetime.
- defrost 3y agoI've no great love for the monarchy, I'll vote for a Republic if it comes up "clean" as a no strings attached kind of question, .. but I don't "despair" .. the last time UK lackeys meddled in AU affairs ( The Dismissal : https://www.thedismissal.com/ https://www.thedismissal.com/ ( bless the little bleeder ) ) goes back a ways and didn't go down well. Should that kind of stunt get pulled again it'd likely trigger a Republic.