There is no reason to be quite so dramatic is there?
Certainly this is a situation which needs to be considered.
But, reason must beat emotion in this two horse race.
And for goodness sake, let us keep the entirety of the discussion in focus.

Personally, after experiencing the quite absurd over-reaction to the death of the queen, I think now might be a good time to stop and consider the matter.
Draw breath, and whilst doing so, assess our own reaction, and think carefully about the way ahead.
Some would say, 'if it ain't broke, it don't need fixin'.
But I think it is clear that there is a vocal group who do desire to break with the UK.
The present 'groundswell' of discontent is sufficient for the matter to be given careful consideration by others?
And whatever the majority decide, we must go with that.
We are, after all, a democracy.

Before we even think of a Republic the Government and any other interested parties should reduce to zero the incidence of Syphilis in the Northern Territory and the Torres Strait Islands among thhe Indigenous population.

It’s a serious health issue.

This clown, who ever he is, is dead wrong.

Ozzies are not too timid, but too smart to change from the best form of government yet devised, a Constitutional Monarchy, to become yet another tin pot republic.

Well I certainly hope they are.

I see 'royalty' as being paid employees of the people.
They are not supernatural beings.
There is no quality about them that is not possessed by others.
They are merely persons appointed to do a job.
A job that some of them do very well.

But many see them as otherwise.
They treat them as if they are somehow 'special' or 'different'.
The fact is that they are not.
Playing 'dress-ups', and parading around, is just irrelevant pomp.
This excessive use of smoke and mirrors shouldn't fool anybody.

However, if we have employed them to do a job, we should let them do it.
But also keep in mind that it is the people who decide, collectively, whether or not they should continue.

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Sir Humphrey Appleby and the Rt Hon Stephen Saunders MP would have been worthy adversaries. An intrigue-infected intellectual inertia motivates the former and the latter represents the interment of inovative initiative.

ISTM, that what is best for Australia is the prime issue before us.

(a) What advantages, if any, accrue by the change to a republican form of government?

(b) Are they worth the costs and losses, if any, suffered by said change in (a) and rejection of a constitutional monarchy?

Individuals from the lowliest status to the highest in the nation must receive equal consideration in access to information to ensure a vote that is as informed as reason advises.

The fact that Australia is assuming a new role in the South-East Asian region will impact many individual considerations. Forward bases for a fleet of nuclear submarines really worries me at times even though that prospect is 30 years hence. Political effervescence in PNG and the Bismarck Archipelago - Would a republic be in a better position to exert influence?