PM on Change to British Monarchy Succession Rules

The ABC reports on Julia Gillard’s reaction to the change (see item below).  She said, “Ultimately, I think the Australian people will work their way through changes to our constitutional arrangements but there is not a great deal of focus on this in our current national discourse.”  She described the changes as “simple and very rational” but noted that they would alter the way the monarchy works forever.  WfaAR notes that the last words are striking and sound as if they are straight out of her brief. Interesting!  WfaAR also reminds the PM that there was little interest in the republic until the Constitutional Convention in 1998 and that voters had voted PM Keating out of office on this matter, among others, two years before that. [ABC Online accessed 28 October 2011]