On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:16:37 -0600, Jack Lutz jack-lutz@comcast.net wrote:
Surely the Australian government has written a thing or two about whether it is a constitutional monarchy or republic?
The two terms are not exclusive. Australia has a republican form of government where sovereignty resides in the people and executive power is given to and exercised by elected and appointed officers, Howver, the Queen has a highly visible symbolic role and has some remnant functions, chief of which is the formal appointment of the Governor-General.
The government directory calls the Governor-General the head of state some years, other times says the Queen is the head of state. It's impossible to find a definitive answer.