Comment on There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article]

quitenormal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was only somewhat joking when, a week or so ago, I suggested that that switching to the Danish monarchy could be a compromise between republicans and monarchists.

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  • quitenormal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but …

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  • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah only compromise I’ll accept is them peacefully stepping down.

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    • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d rather have a British head of state than a partisan populist

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s something to be said for an overall “boss” to the Government. Someone with no real power day-to-day, but with the power to sack the government and force us to an election. Critically: someone outside our politics.

      The one time the power was invoked, it was done terribly by a Governor General worried over his own job and for local political reasons.

      If we disconnect from the monarchy, I would want that position to be retained by someone. But who? The queen king fills this role fairly well at the moment.

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      • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s nothing to be said about democracy being subverted.

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      • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Given the crown has a policy of interfering with neither the decisions nor appointment of the Governor General, we could become a Republic without changing the practical power at all.

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