A republic or not

Every few years, the republic debate gets reunited in Australia and it is by the people pushing for a republic and not by the people. Eventually they believe if they keep chipping away, they will finally achieve their utopian dream of an Australian republic.

Some people are irritated that we still officially have the Queen of England as our head of state or that the Union Jack is still on our flag. We have a functioning government based on the Westminster system that is a proven model of stability.

My attitude, apparently like so many others, is who cares? We care nothing about this idyllic bullshit, what we care about is a functioning government. The Commonwealth Government works absolutely fine, this is why we are a successful western nation in the South East Asia and Oceania region.

The republican movement forced us to vote on the issue in the 1999 referendum and change the constitution of Australia. My girlfriend at the time [from overseas] thought it would be fun to write a new constitution, but I knew full well we would not be doing that.

This would involve high priced lawyers, special interest and lobby groups; the rest of us would just be drowned out in the noise. The Swiss get to vote on everything, the average person would not be involved, there would be no involvement for the majority of us.

The republican movement wanted a president but we have seen the power and overreach of successive US Presidents, there is no way we would want to create a dictator. The role of the Governor General is to provide stability to the government.

I am not conservative by any means, these idiots wanted us to vote for a republic first then once they have a majority work on the details - utter crap. There was no framework, no plan and certainly no analysis apart from some feel good bullshit where we vote for change. 

Put your case forward and we will look at it; I am no monchaist but I do not want to create an unstable government model when a stable government already exists. You analyse the model before you propose to the public, the public analysis then begins and we consider the consequences of the action.