Australia wants to be the Queen not more

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Australia wants to be the Queen not more

A broad coalition of politicians has surprisingly a new push for the abolition of the monarchy started. Tenor: The Queen in far-away great Britain as head of state was simply no longer up to date.

Queen Elizabeth II visited her Australian subjects (library photo 2011)

The heads of government of seven of the eight Australian States signed a Declaration against the British monarch as head of state and for the establishment of a Republic pronounces. “In the 21. Century would have us something Better to succeed as our head of state from a family of unelected Englishman to recruit, in a Palace lives in London,” said the head of the Republican movement, Peter FitzSimons. “We are the world leader in so many areas,” said the Prime Minister of Queensland on the East coast, Annastacia Palaszczuk, according to the Republican movement. “It is time that one of our country as head of state.”

Referendum, within the lifetime of the Queen?

The head of the government of South Australia, Jay Weatherill, spoke in favour of the Referendum out of “respect” before the reigning Queen Elizabeth II, soon to hold. “What are we waiting for? We are waiting that it dies?”, he told the broadcaster ABC. In his opinion, it was “much more respectful”, the Queen at the Transition to participate. They will be just as “smart and competent” to do your tasks as head of state, said Weatherill.

Even the conservative Prime Minister in Canberra, Malcolm Turnbull, and opposition leader Bill Shorten of the labor party are for the Republic. However, had Turnbull recently advocated that such a vote is not in the lifetime of Queen Elizabeth II to hold.

Turnbull’s predecessor, Tony Abbott, an ardent supporter of the monarchy, had a year of much ridicule, as he is Prince Philip, husband of the Queen, the Australian knighthood awarded.

Most of the politicians signed a new Declaration on the intended independence” was a day before the national day, published on the landing of the first English ships on the fifth continent in 1788, reminds. The leader of the pro-Republic movement, FitzSimons, announced that he wanted a re-Referendum on the government of Australia to organize.

Australia is a constitutional monarchy, head of state of the former British colony is the Queen or the king in London. In a 1999 Referendum were 55 percent of the Australians to retain the monarchy. Since then, has been in several surveys a majority for the transformation into a Republic pronounced.

qu/sti (dpa, afp, rtr)