1. I very much agree with Don's:

"We have an absentee monarch, who is really not interested in us, and our Constitution delegates all her powers to the G-G. What more could you want?"

2. Looks like the documents represent no Smoking Gun for Professor Hocking to sniff.

3. A Republic with a President?

Just imagine if we had a DIRECTLY ELECTED President.

He/She would not need to be a member of a Party and could win on popularity.

If He/She had loads of money He/She could buy the Presidency.

He/She might have greater powers than the PM.

He/She might need to be impeached by the House of Reps AND the Senate to be gotten rid of.

4. We may get:

- an Aussie version of the rich TRUMP?

- an Alan BOND?

- Clive PALMER is rich.

- a Gina RINEHART?

- Why did someone push for a Republic - Malcolm TURNBULL?

- Who did all Aussies use to like/trust? Are yes, ROLF HARRIS.

What more could you want? Indeed. It's the perfect setup. A symbolic figurehead with almost no power except as a last resort. A position filled via a trusted hereditary formula, thus avoiding the one genuine potential problem, which is selecting a candidate who might come into conflict with the elected government and its Prime Minister. An outsourced "head of state". Perfect. Some seem to find the concept offensive. We can live with that.

Who did all Aussies use to like/trust? Are yes, ROLF HARRIS
plantagenet,
And, don't forget Kevin 07 ! Which of the two let us down mor

No, "Individual", I was studying in Canada. But I was so appalled by the Palace interference that I fell off the electoral roll for 30 years.

Try this simple thought experiment. If a try-hard GG had been plotting with a Labor leader to oust a Liberal PM, would blue-bloods Charles, Elizabeth and Charteris have played it the same way? To the same endgame? Obvious answer: No.

Now that you've instantly rejected that point out of hand, welcome to the next 45 years of Australian rancour. Thanks for the superb legacy, Elizabeth

Steve S,
If a Coalition PM had made as much of a mess as the Goaf managed, the Coalition PM would have been ousted by his own party long before there was a need to involve the GG !
Just look at Abbott as an example. Even though he out-performed the Dud 100:1 he still got the boot.
It's to do with the levels of integrity, competence of the gang behind the PM.
Australia's economic woes are not due to Lizzy, they're entirely due to Labor incompetence !
Their legacy of mismanaging will haunt us for generations !

The real story is not to be found in Kerr’s letters to the Queen, but in his long-standing ties to Anglo-American intelligence organizations.
Kerr was a member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom which was a reactionary group founded, funded and run by the CIA. He also helped found a lawyer’s group called Law Asia which too was funded by the CIA.
The CIA was never going to stand for a reformist government in Australia running an independent foreign policy, standing up to America and refusing to be part of its war-mongering.
Senior officers have revealed that the ‘Whitlam problem’ was discussed ‘with urgency’ by the heads of CIA and MI6 and that Kerr, who they referred to as ‘our man’, ‘did what he was told to do.’
The huge numbers of letters to the Queen clearly demonstrate the obsessive lengths Kerr went to in order to obey his CIA directives.
This is the real story.