Queen of Australia Title Jars

In “The Stalking of Julia Gillard, how the Media and Team Rudd brought down the Prime Minister”, Kerry-Anne Walsh writes when speaking of CHOGM in Perth in late 2011, “Strangely, Aussies love this woman with the jarring title Queen of Australia……” (p 93).  Jarring or not, it is legally and technically correct.  ‘This woman’ is also technically our head of state – although she carries out no functions that role entails for our country – by virtue of Section 1 of the current Constitution.