The key to this new model for an Australian Republic is based upon a Presidential candidate, and their Deputy, winning the majority of Electors in an Electoral College that already exists in Australia, namely the House of Representatives. Thus, the role of Prime Minister and President are to be fused. It's finally time to discard the relics of King George I.

I suggest that we use a ballot similar to the American ballot and replace the Ballot Paper for the House of Representatives with a Ballot Paper only listing Presidential Candidates and their Deputies. Therefore there will only be two ballot papers for a Federal election in Australia, the Presidential ballot paper and the Senate ballot paper.

A vote for a Presidential candidate and their Deputy will actually be a vote for an Elector within the Electoral College, that is, a candidate Federal MP of the same political party for that particular electorate.

The President and Deputy President shall attend question time as full members of Parliament, there electorates shall be the whole of the commonwealth. The Executive Power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in the President-In-Council, except the power to dissolve parliament. This will be fixed to the first day, for example in March, every four years as prescribed within the amended Australian Constitution.

Presidential candidates must be chosen from political parties that already hold the minimum number of seats within the House of Representatives and the Senate.

This being proportionate, or as near as practical, to the number of seats that equate to an equal representation for each state. If the proportionate figure is a fraction it shall be rounded up.

At present there are six States within the Commonwealth, as such the minimum number of seats required for a political party to present a Presidential candidate would be one sixth of the total number of seats in the House of Representatives.

Therefore, a minimum number of 25 seats in the House of Representatives and a minimum number of 13 seats in the Australian Senate would be needed.

There is very little chance of a major of the constitution in Australia.
However we may get to change our 'Head of State'.
To keep it simlpe we should elect our 'Governor General', in this election we should be treating the nation as one electorate. From a list of 5 nominees created by inviting all citizens, if they would care to nominate any other citizen and the 5 receiving the greatest number of nominations would be put to the people.
The GG should have no extra powers then the current GG and these should be codified in the constitution.
More can be said about this, in fact I have written a paper on this matter for the ARM
So, no change in the 'names' - GOVERNOR GENERAL & COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
Australians would not countenance any great change in the way we do things politically.
We just need to cut loose the last apron string.

the recognition of equal rights between women and men in the form of a republic enacting law by agreement
between a women's legislature and a men's legislature would receive overwhelming support in Australia.

leadership comprising the offices of the President of a men's legislature, the current House of Representatives
and the President of a women's legislature, the current Senate, each elected by their own gender in the manner
described by the author of this thread, presided over by an executive of distinguished elders accompanied
by courts of women's and men's jurisdiction, would be a worthy candidate for discussion.

certainly government comprised of men's legislatures only to which women are admitted under male
supervision as defined by the doctrine of Australia's current archaic Constitution has become irrelevant
to the modern world.

JMCC,

You must fundamentally change your thinking. The role of the GG as a separate executive disappears altogether. Deal only with the role of the PM & Deputy PM.

Let's face it the GG & SGs today are useless relics of the historic battle between parliamentarians and the Monarchy, the parliamentarians have won - its time to cut the GG lose altogether.

Otherwise you tie yourself up in knots over reserve powers and possible conflicts with a PM, not to mention a messy nomination process. Its not going to work - it never will.

As far as name changes go, you must remember that we already a President and Deputy President in the Australian Senate.

Leaving out the changes to the constitution, my model would simply mean a name change from Prime Minister to President, from Deputy Prime minister to Deputy President and changing the ballot paper for the House of Representatives to a Presidential Ballot paper.

Simple!

simple Sense, and with the current Constitution's provision for men's legislatures only,
blatently sexist, archaic, obnoxious and irrelevant.

the role of an executive presiding over an equal rights parliament enacting law by
agreement betwen a women's legislature and a men's legislature is an important and
appropriate role for distinguished elders.

My Dear Sense,

I find it hard to discover logic in your proposal. You offer no place for the good citizens of the Northern Territory or the ACT.
But that is not the point, a head of state stands apart from the political aspirations of 'party politics'. He/She is the thread that binds the nation, the apex of the triangle of oue Westminister system - Head of State, Parliament & Judiciary.
Please remember the local member is the link between the citizen and their parliment, who else does the individual citizen call on with only 25 members, where would they be resident?

Another thing, look at nations with only a President witout balancing mechanisms, the likes of Zimbabwe.

Our Federal Westminster system, fashioned on the proven British system but with greater grass roots representation.

And another thing are you saying eliminate the states?