Brexit to Increase Ties between Australia and Britain?

As things begin to shake out after the Brexit vote in the UK, WfaAR recalls Boris Johnson’s visit to Australia in 2014 during which he encouraged much closer ties between the two countries. One of his reasons was because we share the same head of state. We hope that our newly elected conservative government will not rush to reinforce “British” connections with the UK on this basis. This will require constant vigilance in the next couple of years, including on the role of the Commonwealth, if there is tendency to retain or strengthen these ties rather than remove them as essentially implied by the concept of an Australian Republic.