On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:59:49 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
As I said before, I am not aware of any commonly accepted definition of 'republic' which includes constitional monarchies.
How about the first two definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary or the first two in Australia's Macquarie Dictionary?
Australia is a commonwealth, sovereignty resides in the people, the monarch is a powerless figurehead, the monarch is not the head of government, the form of government is republican and the executive power is exercised by an appointed official.
Australia may share the same Queen as the UK, New Zealand and Canada, but the constitutional arrangements are quite different.