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A radical thought: could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?

  • Written by Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull met Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle in London in April.AAP/Ella Pellegrini

Recently, author and speechwriter Don Watson has questioned the impetus for Australia to become a republic. In the April edition of The Monthly, he wrote:

In a world filling with tyrants, Queen Elizabeth and her descendants represent a...

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