Oh, and one more thing. Where does Judith Durham stand on this whole monarchy thing? Because I have been in love with her since I bought my first Seekers album. Her opinion would carry a lot of weight with me!
I don't think I've ever seen her express a view on the republican issue, which leads me to think she's probably a monarchist, as she has expressed her views on the somewhat related issue of whether or not Australia should change its flag - she's in favour of that, and while the idea of changing the flag is normally a republican idea in Australia, it's not universally so, and I thought if she was republican she'd have brought that up in her arguments.
But one thing worth mentioning - here in Australia (I'm Australian born but hold dual British citizenship as well - and I am a constitutional monarchist) there is probably majority support for the idea of a republic in theory. Nonetheless when there was a Referendum in 1999 as to whether we should become a republic and cut ties to the monarchy, a majority of Australians rejected the idea - primarily because of the stability issue I mentioned. It's easier to be a republican in theory than to come up with a model for a republic that people trust to be as stable as the system we have now. People voted to retain a monarchical system they trusted even though they didn't like the symbolism, over a symbolic change they supported and an unknown and unpredictable system. That's the big issue in many ways. Nobody would design the current system from scratch, but over decades and centuries, it's evolved into something very stable and it's hard to design something like that from scratch.