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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