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Originally Posted by Javert
The Queen holds no significant power, if not any more than symbolic, over Australia. Australia is a sovereign nation. Also, the Queen holds no power over Britain or any of it's colonies, the monarch hasn't had that power for hundreds of years. Brush up on your history, guys.
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She actually does, Javert, and she excercised it in Australia in the 1970s when she forced Gough Whitlam to call a general election when he refused to resign after a double dissolution.
She does not have the power to suspend parliament but she most certainly has the power to force a general election. If such power was questioned by the government of the day it would be enforced by the citizenry on her behalf.
Fortunately such a constititional disaster has not so far occurred.