My essay is about "Should Australia become a Republic? Can you say it's good or bad, it will be so helpful!?

Question

Today we are seeing more and more people asking if Australia should become a republic. People are wondering if our head of state needs to be monarch. A republic country means that the head of state is a president. My point of view is Australia shouldn’t become a republic. In this essay I will discuss what our relationship with Britain will be affected if we do become a republic, the changes of becoming a republic and is anything really good about a republic.
What will happen to our relationship with Britain? If we were to become a republic, we won’t have a good relationship with Britain. Why do we need to break the chain between Britain and Australia, as we have so much history together? Because of Britain, we are here today, so is it necessary to just leave Britain? If we were in a crisis-like being in a war, and we were a republic, we wouldn’t receive much help from Britain. Do you think other countries might feel it would be easier to invade Australia, because we’re a new independent country? It defiantly would be. Becoming a republic, citizens of Australia might feel unsafe and leave the country. Do we really want that happening because of one little change? People might say, do we really need their help anyway? All I can say is, the more help, the better. Britain and Australia share so much history together; it would be disgraceful just to ditch them.
If we were to become a republic, what will change? If that was to happen, only our head of state wouldn’t be a monarch but a president and we wouldn’t have a governor general. Now that’s not much, and there would be so many things affected from this. Maybe if we did become a republic, our national flag might change because of the Union Jack on the top-left hand corner. Your everyday life would basically be no different. So is it necessary to change to a republic, even though there wouldn’t be many changes? Is that the whole point for republicans, they want things to change, but nothing will anyways?
What is good about a republic? The only good thing about a republic is that your country is sort-of an independent country. But don’t we feel like this already in Australia? The point is, there isn’t really a benefit from becoming a republic, but there are a lot of down-sides to becoming a republic like, waste of Australian tax payer money, need to change our currency, hold a referendum, etc. Some Australians today think that becoming a republic would be a huge step for Australia, for the better, but when you look into it more, there isn’t much of a benefit but only makes the country itself worse.
In conclusion, Australia shouldn’t become a republic because our good relationship with Britain will fade, there wouldn’t be change to Australia if we did become a republic and as outlined above there isn’t anything really good about becoming a republic. I hope the issues I have discussed made you also think that Australia shouldn’t become a republic.

Answer 1

You'll find it helpful to go through the following two sites:



*http://www.norepublic.com.au/ - Website of "Australians for Constitutional Monarchy"

*http://www.monarchist.org.au/ - Website of "The Australian Monarchist League"



The real main arguments are against a republic are as follows:

*Constitutional monarchy has proven to be the most stable form of government in the world.

*Out of the World's top ten democracies, seven are Constitutional monarchies even though there are only a few, which proves that this is the most democratic system of government.

*Australia is already a fully independent sovereign nation, if it wasn't so, why is Australia treated as such? Why does Australia have a seat at the United Nations? Why? It's because Australia IS already independent. Australia shares a Monarch with Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and several other countries equally.

*The Australian Constitution is very unique - it was actually approved by the peoples of the Australian states as they joined the federation through democratic referendum. And central to the Australian constitution is Australia's monarchical democracy.

*And only a few years back in 1999, the Australian people once again affirmed their faith in "one indissoluble federal commonwealth under the Crown" (quoted text from premable of the Constitution of Australia). The republic referendum was rejected by the Australian people and by all of Australia's six states.

*In the (unlikely) event that Australia does become a republic, trillions of dollars of taxpayer's money will be spent to change the billions of symbols, documents, offices, and so on, which would require change if Australia becomes a republic. A referendum on a republic alone would take 50 to 100 million dollars.

*Australia, through sharing a monarch with Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and so on, while there may exist many differences between these nations, show that they are united under one common individual - an individual who has devoted her life to the peoples of the countries over which she reigns.

*The current system provides many great checks and balances a republic will never have.

*The current system provides Australia with non partisan leaders above the fray of politics who can provide united leadership for the nation and it's states, regardless of the political ideologies - The Queen of Australia, the Governor-General of Australia, and the Governors of the Australian states.

*A republic is often called a politician's republic. Why? Because only greedy politicians and not the people of Australia will benefit from it.



In conclusion Australia has a wonderful constitution and system of governance which has worked well for many many years. Why change that by creating a (politician's) republic?

Answer 2

It's odd that Aussies don't feel INDEPENDENT simply because they don't have an Australian head of state. Monarchy isn't about that, a trained monkey could sit on a throne on Mars as monarch or as president. Constitutional Monarchy is about a method of government that, in this particular model's case, has been successful for 350 years. Name another system that has prevailed for so long without revolution or civil war. I will vote YES when there is a proper adult debate about AUSTRALIA'S place in the world and not it's ties to the Mother Country and not about the faults of the Windsors or the latent anti-British sentiment that so often infects the debate amongst the population. When there is a proper debate about a new constitution that will match the new state. I will vote yes when it is about Australia and it's future and not about Britain and Australia's past. And it would be wise that people remember that that Great Republic, the USA whose founding fathers cobbled together a constitution in effectively a few months, is still a work in progress some 231 years on. When Australian's have a debate that realises not all of their hang-ups, anxieties and sentiments about "independence", in an already independent country, will be resolved in one referendum, but have a debate adult enough to accept that it too will always be a work in progress. Then I will vote yes. Malcolm Turnbull was on the right track when he started his campaign all those years ago, but even he has realised it's pointless and more or less given up hope that the country will ever be ready to grow. Or even grow-up.

Answer 3

Never really thought about this

Answer 4

it is good