The Commonwealth would call for nominations for this position, through Local Government Councils, 150 days or more prior to a General Election.

The candidates to be put to the people should be Australian Citizens aged between 39 and 69 years {6} of age as at the date of nomination. A candidate will not be a current or an immediate past member {7} of any parliament in Australia.
A final list of up to five candidates, for election, will be chosen as follows;
Candidates for election to position of Governor General may be nominated by any registered voter residing in any Local Council area. Each Local Council will call for the nomination {8} of any citizen residing in any Local council area. The nomination should be in writing on a prescribed form, the completed form to be submitted to the Local Council via mail/web site or deposited in a ballot box at the Local Council premises by due date. The voters name would be marked off the roll, electronically, on receipt of a nomination.

The elected members of each Local Government Council should vote, by secret ballot and elect up to five candidates from a list of up to ten nominees receiving the greatest number of nominations received from the voters, this count of postal and deposited votes to be conduced by the Local Council’s returning officer.

These nominated candidates, from each Local Council, to be forwarded to the State or Territory Electoral Commission to construct a list of up to twenty nominees from those candidates receiving the highest number of nominations received, for each State or Territory Parliament to vote upon.

Each State or Territory parliament, in a joint sitting (if two houses exist), of each State or Territory would then vote, by secret ballot, for up to ten candidates from the lists of nominees constructed from the Local Councils returning officers by the State or Territory Electoral Commissions

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Each State or Territory parliament, in a joint sitting (if two houses exist), of each State or Territory would then vote, by secret ballot, for up to ten candidates from the lists of nominees constructed from the Local Councils returning officers by the State or Territory Electoral Commissions.

This final list would be forwarded to the Commonwealth Electoral Commission who would formerly invite the top 10 nominees, by the number of votes received, in camera {9}, to stand and have them accept or reject the nomination in writing on a prescribed document and within the prescribed time frame.

Should a nominee reject their nomination the next nominee receiving the greatest number of votes would be added to the final list of ten (and so on).

A joint sitting of both houses of the Commonwealth plus the Premier or Chief Minister of each State and Territory would vote by secret ballot.

This secret ballot, for five candidates, from the list constructed by the electoral commission of up to ten candidates gaining the highest number of nominations nationally, these five candidates, voted on by this meeting, will be put to the people for election.

At this stage of the process the final list of five nominees will be published, at the same time as writs are issued for the upcoming election, in the public notices of the local and or national press.

At no point during this process should the nominee or any nominator be permitted, by law, to promote the nominee by way of positive media comment or paid advertising

The Red/green, getup, labour, Socialist Alliance has proven repeatedly over half a century that our state & territory governments are the most ineffective, useless, wastrel's, the world has ever known.

Some Right wing pollies have occasionally mentioned duplication of services. What rubbish. In most cases we have triplication of services.

Lets have sensible, popular, constitutional reform that would easily be passed by referendum, abolish the states & territories.

Schools, hospitals & everything else the Loony, Left, states have ruined, could not possibly be any worse, if administered by local government.

Leave Australia as a Constitutional Monarchy with less politicians & bureaucrooks. Everybody wins.

Leave Australia as a Constitutional Monarchy with less politicians & bureaucrooks. Everybody wins.
Formersnag,
I can't help worrying that those hell-bent on electing incompetent regimes will do anything & aided especially via like-minded media that we will end up a Banana Republic with a helluva bend.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11453#195150

individual, could not agree more, how well i remember Paul Keating's banana republic line. I struggled to work it all out for decades.

Worked out most of it, made no sense at all.

Then i saw this little beauty, & every remaining piece of the puzzle fell out of the sky into place.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

Straight away, i could see that GAYLP, Closet Communists, were, "Planning everything, for Failure".

They always DID, exactly the opposite, of what their "principles", SAID.

In theory at least, our GG is not supposed to be a muppet beholden to one (or more) major party , however the reality is something else again. Apart from the Whitlam affair, no GG in recorded history has done anything even remotely of value to the Australian people, in fact all they have ever done is poonce around like little tin gods whilst squandering prodigious sums of our hard earned cash. I'd much prefer to have an apolitical 'el presidente' with a dirty great stick & the authority to smash bloodsucking parasites (AKA politicians) over the head when (as is endemic lately) they need such treatment. Quite obviously no major party is about to give that sort of power to an entity which could potentially derail their scheming. I suspect that the electorate is at least marginally more intelligent than the bloodsucking parasites (as suggested by the resounding defeat of the last republican referendum) and have the ability to see through any proposal for a 'politicians republic'. In short, thats the main reason why so many of us would dearly love to cut ties with the monarchy still oppose a republic.