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The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Reluctant Republic and Fighting for the Republic

If Australia became a republic tomorrow under the model that was proposed, it wouldn't be a substantive change to our constitutional arrangements for our system of government. But I think it's an important one. The problem we faced was that the changing Australian constitution is very hard and command compulsory voting has been a big factor in that. It seemed to be more a matter of why not. Given the change was reasonably incremental and symbolic.

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