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To: nickcarraway

Honestly, no, I don’t think so.

Some overly woke people might, and Australia has its share of those, but most people wouldn’t care at all one way or the other.

I’m inclined to think it’s some republicans making things up to try and make it sound like they have more influence than they do.

If I had to guess, I’d say about 10% of Australians are hardcore republicans right now. About 10% (and I’d include myself in this) are hardcore monarchists.

The other 80% really don’t care all that much one way or the other. Many don’t care at all - but even those who do, don’t care all that much compared to all sorts of other issues.

Most of the hardcore republicans are socialists. More of the hardcore monarchists are conservatives.

Since the rejection of a republic in 1999, republicans basically decided that they wouldn’t make another push until the Queen died. Now that has happened, they’re gearing up for another attempt. And that’s not unreasonable - after a quarter of a century, it’s perfectly reasonable to revisit the question.

But, at the moment, at least, I don’t think they have as much momentum as they’d like.

They’ll win some battles - they have succeeded in ensuring the King will not replace his mother on our five dollar note.

But at the moment, he’s still going to be on every single new coin by the end of this year.

Most of the republicans aren’t stupid. They know the worst thing they could do is push too fast too soon, especially with the current government (which, for the most part is pro-republic), more or less ruling out any sort of referendum, until 2026 at the earliest.

After ‘The Voice’ referendum, likely to be later this year - then, depending on what happens there are the reaction to it, we might start to see some sort of genuine push.


31 posted on 03/19/2023 8:58:25 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975
republicans basically decided that they wouldn’t make another push until the Queen died.

Doesn't it look bad to do it right after she dies?

32 posted on 03/19/2023 9:09:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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