Thoughts on Monarchism?

[SanAndreasX]

Pemalite said:

Australia being a member of the Commonwealth, the Monarchy hasn't done anything for us in decades, not directly anyway.
Post WW2 the monarchy underwent a lot of changes to scale their involvement back, which I thing was a positive thing in hindsight.... Empires are expensive to maintain.

We even had a national referendum to ditch the Monarchy and become a republic, but as a nation we actually loved the Queen so we voted to stay the course.
We don't pay the British anything or the Monarchy anything, the Governor general is elected on advice from our leaders to represent the King/Queen of the day, so the Crown really is just a figurehead that represents our past, rather than guides our future.

I wonder if we were to re-vote to become a Republic if it would pass while King Charles is in power? I feel his admiration isn't as significant as the Queen in today's society, but historical ties can be hard to break, especially amongst conservatives who are afraid of change.

Either way, I did receive a medal from the Queen for my efforts in the 2019 Bushfire season.

Governor-General Sir John Kerr apparently decided not to make public his dismissal of of Gough Whitlam as PM out of fear that Gough would contact the Queen and petition for the dismissal of Kerr.