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The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) is a non-partisan lobby group advocating constitutional change in Australia to a republican form of government.

History

Foundation

The ARM was founded in July 1991, following the Australian Labor Party's adoption of republicanism as a policy at its conference in June of that year.

The ARM's first chairman was the novelist Thomas Keneally, with other founding members including the investment banker (now Liberal party politician) Malcolm Turnbull, the former Australian cricket captain, Ian Chappell, and the film director Fred Schepisi. It is currently headed by retired Major General Michael Keating[1].

Arguments

The ARM argues that Australia should become a Republic with the Australian Head of state, currently Queen Elizabeth II Queen of Australia (and Great Britain), an Australia citizen and resident. The ARM seeks to do this through a series of plebiscites providing the population direct input to any decision.

1999 referendum

Although opinion polls showed that many (A January 2007 Newspoll survey shows that 45% of Australians favour or partly favour Australia becoming a republic, with 36% opposed and 19% uncommitted.[2]) Australians favoured becoming a republic, divisions emerged in the Movement between those who favoured indirect election of the President by Parliament, and those who favoured direct election by the people. This led to Australian voters rejecting at a referendum in 1999 a constitutional amendment to a specific form of republic described by some as the "minimalist" model because it involved the least change to the constitution of the various republican models proposed.

Common cause

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The ARM is a member of Common Cause, a group of Commonwealth republican movements who seek to change their country's status as a Commonwealth Realms to Commonwealth republics.

See also

External links

References

1. ^ ARM Press release (5 June 2007). MAJOR GENERAL MIKE KEATING NEW REPUBLICAN HEAD. Retrieved on 2007-07-09.
2. ^ republic.pdf Newspoll: January 2007 republic poll (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


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republic, for all other uses see: republic (disambiguation)

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Republicanism in Australia is the movement to change Australia's status as a constitutional monarchy to a republican form of government.

Arguments for change and the Characteristics of the Debate.


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Thomas Michael Keneally

Born: 7 September 1935 (1935--) (age 72)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality:  Australia


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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954), Australian politician, is the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney's eastern suburbs since October
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Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Australia
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Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Right-arm Leg Break (LB)

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Matches 75 16

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Frederick Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December, 1939) is an Australian film director and scriptwriter who was born in Melbourne, Victoria.

His credits include Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, Six Degrees of Separation, Fierce Creatures, The Russia House, and most recently Empire
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January 2007 is the first month of that year. It began on a Monday and 31 days later, ended on a Wednesday.

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President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides , who sits in leadership (from Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term
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Parliament of Australia

Type Bicameral
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Speaker of the House of Representatives David Hawker
President of the Senate Alan Ferguson

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Official languages English
Membership 53 sovereign states
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A Commonwealth republic is any one of the 31 sovereign states of the Commonwealth of Nations that have a republican form of government. In contrast to the 16 Commonwealth realms, they are not in a personal union relationship, do not have Elizabeth II as their respective Head of
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Republicanism in Australia is the movement to change Australia's status as a constitutional monarchy to a republican form of government.

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The 1999 Australian referendum was a two question referendum held on 6 November 1999. The first question asked whether Australia should become a republic with a President appointed by Parliament, a bi-partisan appointment model which had previously been decided at a Constitutional
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Emergence of the Commonwealth of Australia

Main article: Australian federation

After European settlement in 1788, Australia was politically organized as a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all.
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Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) is a group that aims to preserve Australia's current constitutional monarchy, with Elizabeth II as Queen of Australia. The group states that it is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation whose role is "To preserve, to protect
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