In a word, yes.
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Originally Posted by Centralist
According to the majority of the Australian people, no it shouldn't. Debate over.  |
Yuh, nearly 10 years ago.
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Originally Posted by TheLeader
If it is anything like the American Republican System Forget it!
The elections seem to take forever and cost lots of money. I may not be a monarchist but the election process are heaps better.
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That's very true - we do have a good election system. That hopefully would not have to change but I'm definitely no expert in political science.
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Originally Posted by Ronin-Talgar
First, the 1999 referendum was skewd by John Howard in a way that goes against our preferential voting system. Instead of giving us sereval choices, he gave us monarchy vs an unpopular form of a republic(based off the american system, I'm not sure how exactly). This broke the republic vote in two, and was not a true expression of the democratic will. I'm not saying it necassarily would have passed, we simply don't know.
Secondly, it was nine years ago, so the debate is ongoing, not least because of all the new voters.
We should do so because its a truer expression of who we are, and an excellent opportunity to improve the system (though I imagine someone will actually try to use it to break things).
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.