HOW IT BEGAN
The ball got rolling in 1993 with the establishment of the Republic Advisory Committee, which published a report called the "An Australian Republic". John Howard committed the (then) Opposition to a Constitutional Convention, which was held in the old Parliament House in Canberra in 1998, recommending the questions to be put to referendum in 1999.
we are looking at a system where the country is governed by elected representatives, the House of Representatives and the Senate, and we also have a Head of State who does not get the job because they inherited it
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