DeclinetoState
01-28-2008, 01:33 AM
By Michael Perry
Sun Jan 27, 10:19 PM ET
<!-- end storyhdr -->SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Australia's head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Australia can become a republic, said one of the country's leading politicians and former head of the republican movement.
Malcolm Turnbull, now opposition treasury spokesman, said Australians would not vote for a republic while the country's monarch reigned.
The majority of Australians support their country becoming a republic, but a 1999 vote on a republic failed because Australians could not agree on the type of republic.
Turnbull said Queen Elizabeth's departure from the throne would be a "watershed event that would galvanize the population" into debating what type of head-of-state they wanted.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/wl_nm/australia_republic_dc;_ylt=AmEX9PnQvfFliUpjpwErnav 9xg8F)
Liz is tolerable, I'm sure, but I don't think the Ozzies are too hot for Chuck and Camilla.
Sun Jan 27, 10:19 PM ET
<!-- end storyhdr -->SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Australia's head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Australia can become a republic, said one of the country's leading politicians and former head of the republican movement.
Malcolm Turnbull, now opposition treasury spokesman, said Australians would not vote for a republic while the country's monarch reigned.
The majority of Australians support their country becoming a republic, but a 1999 vote on a republic failed because Australians could not agree on the type of republic.
Turnbull said Queen Elizabeth's departure from the throne would be a "watershed event that would galvanize the population" into debating what type of head-of-state they wanted.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/wl_nm/australia_republic_dc;_ylt=AmEX9PnQvfFliUpjpwErnav 9xg8F)
Liz is tolerable, I'm sure, but I don't think the Ozzies are too hot for Chuck and Camilla.