Nah only compromise I’ll accept is them peacefully stepping down.
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.
Marsupial@quokk.au 5 months ago
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’d rather have a British head of state than a partisan populist
Nath@aussie.zone 5 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
queenking fills this role fairly well at the moment.Marsupial@quokk.au 5 months ago
There’s nothing to be said about democracy being subverted.
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Even The Dismissal was not a subversion of democracy. It was a dissolution of parliment and an invocation of democracy: taking us to an election. I was a little kid, so obviously wasn’t involved in the politics at the time. My dad was a die-hard Labor voter and he was furious. So, my personal memories of it are very anti-Fraser/Kerr as a result of that influence in my formative years.
But for all of that, I concede that the Government needs to be accountable to someone. I believe we need an “emergency stop” button in our constitutional makeup. I just don’t think the one time it was used was a valid emergency. I think history has the same conclusion - that was not the way the power should be invoked. I doubt it’ll happen again like that.
brisk@aussie.zone 5 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.
quitenormal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but …