King Says A Republic Is Up To Australian People

[naomi24]

//King Charles has confirmed that it is up to the Australian people to decide whether the country remains a constitutional monarchy or becomes a republic.

 

Ahead of the King's visit to Australia next week, the Australian Republic Movement exchanged letters with Buckingham Palace officials, writing on the King's behalf.

 

A referendum on the issue was held in Australia in 1999, where people voted to remain a constitutional monarchy.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4d22yl9kpo

 

The quest rumbles on.  Should they stay or should they go?

[ToraToraTora]

20:02 I thought you were talking about the organisation not bleating about the result.

[DTCwordfan]

return the 10 million boxes of Fosters consumed by us?

[DTCwordfan]

and forget that pisswater called 4X

[Ellipsis]

Yes, I am talking about the [lack of] organisation that resulted in expensive and divisive constitutional change following a result like that ... 37% of the registered voters.

[tomus42]

It's ridiculous that a country should (in theory) be ruled by a king on the other side of the world.

It's purely symbolic anyway. In reality they're entirely independent.

They'll undoubtedly vote to become a Republic next time.

[Togo]

The King does not rule, in the modern constitutions, he prevents someone else taking the position. Constitutional monarchy is a very good attenuator of the despotic tendancy in Governments. . 

[tomus42]

//Constitutional monarchy is a very good attenuator of the despotic tendancy in Governments. //

How does that work then? 

If the govt decides to become a dictatorship does the Monarch step in and forbid it?

[Togo]

There are many examples all around the World where the people of a Country have rid themselves of what they perceived to be an overbearing or parasitic inherited Monarch. Only to find themselves with much worse in the fullness of time with no prospect of asking them to go, or voting them out. Always be careful of what you wish for or desire, to satisfy emotional fulfilment,  without looking at the alternative. 

[Togo]

See above!^^ No we can vote them out. Geddit? A Monarch, as yet, guarantees that. 

[tomus42]

//A Monarch, as yet, guarantees that. //

How? Monarchs have been completely powerless for some time now.

If anything, they're used as puppets by despots to add some kind of legitimacy to the despotism.