30 March

Read the Women for an Australian Republic submission to the Senate Inquiry on the Republic. The submission supports a direct election model as the most likely to be successful and promotes voluntary voting and restricted public funding for selection as means of reducing the political mandate of an elected president and the interest in the job by political parties. A purely ceremonial head of state is proposed which could just as easily be a woman as a man. Moderate constitutional change is promoted to bring about a republic, by means of Constitutional Conventions (at least 50% of fully elected delegates to be women), that will have the confidence of and be easily understood by voters. Simple and practical approaches to establishing a republic are proposed. Click here.