Female Republican’s Angle on the Coronation

Marina Go writing about the forthcoming coronation ceremony says “King Charles is our nation’s highest office bearer and because he’s also Britain’s head of state, he does not – and will never – put our nation first.” This she says is a conflict of interest that no governance structure would tolerate. And she goes on to make the links with business from the people as stakeholders of our nation: “For directors and officers to fulfil their fiduciary duty, we must be able to put our organisation first”. Charles is inherently conflicted and, unless we become a republic, every family member that succeeds him as our Head of State will be similarly conflicted plus “The symbolism of the coronation should be the very jolt we need to put an end to a relationship with the Crown that is way past its use-by-date.” She makes an unusual case for the republic based on the role of the business community spending much of the last decade helping the nation to move rapidly forward (ed: in the absence of Government?) – think marriage equality, removal of harrassment from the workplace, reconciliation plans and embracing the Uluru Statement. By implication, the Republic should be next cab off the rank. She concludes by saying, “Australia, increasingly multi-cultural, is moving swiftly towards true independence, sweeping aside the last vestiges of colonialism as we move closer to a Voice to Parliament.” Click on the link below to read the full piece. [“The Coronation of King Charles and why it’s time to embrace an Australian Republic” by Marina Go, Women’s Agenda online, 1 May 2023] Marina Go is an elected member of ARM’s National Council who seems to have banished her ‘not anti-monarchy’ credentials in this article (See News Item of 25 October 2022). She was a founding publisher of Women’s Agenda, a site for women’s news including politics and sport, has 25 years experience in the media industry and has been a non-executive director of boards including Transurban, Energy Australia and Netball Australia plus Chair of Wests Tigers NRL Club and Ovarian Cancer Australia.

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