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In Australia, I think fear of getting something like the US political system is why the monarchy is somewhat tolerated. (Though it wouldn’t survive a simple popular vote, the question is what is the “better” thing to replace it with, which monarchists successfully use as a wedge to divide the republican supporters)



And yet Australia voted not to become a republic in 1999. Seems like it did survive a simple popular vote at that time.


Can something like a Royal Commission exist without that connection? Probably I would guess, in some other form. They seem to have real teeth.




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