Canada doing so was probably a mistake and, along the same lines, it would probably be a mistake for Austraila since it has the net effect of erasing a tremendous part of their history and heritage--take away Great Britain much earlier on, and who knows what AUS would have ended up looking like, but almost certainly nothing akin to its present development.

Other than that, I think it's a fine idea that Australia 'go out on its own' even if it is only sympbilic. As the OP stated, Australia has certainly proven itself to be a fine and upstanding nation and most certainly on the way up, so if they want to move out from under the 'shadow' of what's left of Great Britain, I say huzzah!

Only if it's Roman style. Presidents are boring.

don't you ever have a vote on it,i mean it's only a matter of time isn't it,

Doesn't seem like it would make any difference to you, positive or negative. An elected head of state would be just as costly to maintain.

Its up to the people of Australia. My only question is does it really matter? Would anything actually change?

I didn't know Australia was still technically a monarchy.

"As most of you will know Australia is currently being governed by the British Monarch."

That's actually quite hilarious, not even the UK is governed by their Monarch. They are governed by an elected Prime Minister and parliament; I was fairly sure Australia had a similar agreement, guess I was wrong.I would say it sucks to be Australia, but I have heard the country is actually really nice. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to overthrow a government for making your country nice, only to replace it with one who could potentially divide and destroy it.

Are u watching the test. South Africa seems to be on top of Australa  :(

The Australian Cricket team has fallen.

Just hope we can take back the ashes. 

What a coincidence, I watched this video just the other day.

Whoever said that is wrong, the Queen is the head of state, but has little to do with the government. This is the same in all commonwealth countries, that still recognise her, as head of state. She is a constitutional monarchy, meaning a parliament still rules the country, she is just the face of it.

Australia has an elected parliament and a elected senate, they choose to have the queen as head of state. Britain doesn't rule over them at all.