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Australia is mourning the Queen longer than the UK

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Is There a Real Chance for Australia to Become a Republic?

republicans have thought this would be a trigger moment that would see public sentiment moving. Paul keating's decision to push a republic during his prime ministership in the 19 nineties, and the momentum it generated was the reason the avowed monarchist john howard held the referendum. It takes a national leader to push the issue resolutely for any chance of that happening again. The truth is that probably relies on how charles an his family actually acquit themselves. Elbenisi will also need to throw his weight, as the elected leader of the nation, behind any new drive for a republic for it to succeed.

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