If the Brits won’t accept this habit in a future monarch of theirs, why should we in ours? It is the same person revealing how stretched and silly the arrangement is. There is no guarantee that Charles III won’t start meddling in our government too. We need to change Section 1 of our Constitution sooner rather than later to remove this anachronism and become a Republic asap. Read Nick Cohen’s article [“Prince Charles, we’ll not stomach a meddling monarch” The Guardian online, 4 January 2015] by clicking on link below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
