Foxy,

No it's not the right time to decouple from the British Commonwealth.

We need to retain the Queen as our Head of State because we may be on the path to a war with China and its allies.

Remaining a Dominion with the Queen as our War leader (which is what a HofS is for those who don't know anything about history and sociology like the shifty&shadyminister who by the way had my account on OLO suspended temporarily) will mean that we have the British Commonwealth as our ally.

And keep in mind the enemy is already inside the gates so we will be fighting on two fronts when war with China breaks out.

Mr 0,
We're not heading for a war with China. At most there will be economic sanctions.
And China itself is not the enemy, let alone the Chinese people here. It's President Xi who's the cause of all the trouble.

Nor would changing our head of state change who our allies are.

Mr O,

To ensure a genuine majority support for change
(or not) there should be a compulsory plebiscite
legislated by the government. Let the voters decide
if they want a Republic and what method of selecting
their government leader.

The threat of China is very real. However I'm
sure that our country and its allies, will be able
to deal appropriately with the problem as it has
done thus far.

We have allowed too many people become citizens of Australia who do not value...
Josephus,
Not only that but the people responsible have now been breeding the discontent for decades ! They have succeeded to garner support from the indigenous & all other Leftist lobbyists.
Labor are taken full advantage of this irrationality simply for votes without a thought of the eventual outcome !

G'day HASBEEN...

What a sorry but true picture you've drawn about the ability and content of our armed forces. With feminist insistence, each vessel, including Subs, has a complement of women on board, and each Tank in the Armoured Corps has a female driver and perhaps a Gay gun loader, and the RAAF has a percentage of female ADG's etc. etc. I'm so glad we didn't have any feminists in South Vietnam, particularly when outside the wire at the Dat!

Foxy,

Yes of course how silly of me not to see that everything is under control and that you will be able to keep China at bay.

Just like Britain and France kept Hitler from starting a war.

I'm sure that when China says it will invade Taiwan it means it will not invade Taiwan.

The old No means Yes routine in reverse.