Queensland Still Holding Out on Uniform Royal Succession Bill

The British bill cleared the House of Lords on 22 April but Queensland still wants to go it alone and pass its own legislation so that daughters cannot be displaced by younger sons in the line of succession, declining to refer its powers to the Australian Government to pass a law on behalf of all six Australian States and ensuring the same head of government in all parts of the country.  Even the Queensland Parliamentary Committee considering the State’s bill queried the point of this move.  Why are we bothering with this nonsense?  Because the federal Constitution ties us to the British monarch as head of our government.  When laws relating to the succession over there are changed, then, over here, we have to make complementary changes so that a) the British law can take effect and b) we have the same head of government as the other 15 realms. The Australian Government says it will go ahead with federal legislation despite Queensland’s objections and put it into parliament in May as time runs out before the election.