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I'm not so pessimistic. God is in control. The tiny nation of Israel survives, thrives and prospers in an impossible environment. There is no way that they should have survived the first few days after declaring independence. Yet they are stronger than ever.I'm a pessimist about eternal Australian sovereignty in the long run. As I noted before we're a large land with a small population in an Asian sea. I think sooner or later we're going to be dominated by an Asian power, and I fail to see how we can avoid it.
What we can do is decide which Asian power we'd prefer to be "close partners" with and start moving in that direction.
It would be a lot easier to do that if we were a Republic, and not referring decisions to the British crown and parliament on the other side of the world.
I think we're going to be faced with some hard choices long before this century is out, and quite possibly within your and my lifetimes.
Sure, we are doing the right thing by alliances with Japan and India, and hopefully closer relationships with South Korea. But we are also allied to the US and the UK. No other Asian power comes close to the joint US and UK forces, not even China.
Tell me what decisions have to be referred to the Crown? As far as I know, zero. We simply tell the Crown what we are going to do and go ahead. Even in WW2, when Australia and Britain were joined at the hip, Australia told Churchill that we were pulling troops back to defend Australia. It was not a request. Churchill was not at all happy, but he could do nothing.
A republic would be fine in theory. I see no need for it, no benefit to Australians generally and just an opportunity for politicians to create more jobs for the boys. Politicians would not dare to allow the punters to choose and punters are too smart to let politicians decide for them. That may change, but I don't see it in the foreseeable future.
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