The Remaining Australia's Colonial Mentality

At its core, an australian republic has always been about severing the remaining constitutional ties to the united kingdom. It's he continued existence of this lingering british connection that for republicans long represented the persistence of australia's colonial mentality. Since the failure of the republic referendum in november 19 99, and indeed well before, there have been two main problems with way of thinking. The true marker of australie's colonial mentality hadn't been placed in the same field of vision. I remember that the programme for that service in westminster abbey in july two thousand proudly proclaimed that the australian people had cr d one of the world's most democratic