Whether Australia has a Queen as head of state is not a major concern to me. I have lived here 50 years and the only political affect of the Constitutional Monarchy has been that the Queen backed the Governor General’s interpretation of the Constitution when she sacked Gough Whitlam. This had the affect of forcing an early election in which Gough was overwhelmingly defeated.

Greater concern to me is that people wanting a Republic ask “Do we keep the Constitutional Monarchy or do we get a Republic?”.
This is a clever ruse by the Republicans because they lump all republic types against the Constitutional Monarchy system.
A sample of Republics include – Soviet Union ; Iraq ; United States of America ; Italian Social Republic ; India ; People’s Republic of China ; North Korea ; and Ethiopia (there are many others).

If asked to chose between the current Australian system and the examples of political systems above I am fairly sure that there would be far fewer people jumping on the Republican band wagon and more asking for further details as to exactly what type of Republic will replace our system.