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Is Charles set to fly into a new 'end the monarchy' row with his visit to Australia? Palace aides are drawing up a plan for the King's Sydney trip next year
The planned visit to Sydney will coincide with Commonwealth summit meeting

King Charles is set to face the biggest test to his reign next year when he flies to Australia ? where calls for the country to become a republic are ever-increasing.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that royal aides are preparing for a visit to Sydney to coincide with his first attendance as the head of the Commonwealth at its summit meeting in Samoa.

A senior Australian government minister last night said the visit would lead to a ?renewed conversation? about the country having its own head of state.

Charles is due to be at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) next October and it is predicted that he will extend the tour to visit Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

Matt Thistlethwaite, the assistant minister for the republic ? an anti-monarchist role created in the Australian Labor Party last year ? told the MoS: ?The King will always be welcome in Australia and greeted fondly by the Australian people. But in modern-day Australia his visit will trigger a renewed conversation about having our own head of state who lives with us, represents us and is an Australian.

Is Charles set to fly into a new 'end the monarchy' row with his visit to Australia? Palace aides are drawing up a plan for the King's Sydney trip

[PrincessOfPeace]

On recommendation by PM @AlboMP, His Majesty King Charles III has approved the appointment of Ms Samantha Mostyn AO as Australia's next Governor-General.

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australias-new-governor-general

[Curryong]

Yes Samantha has certainly had a long, varied and illustrious career. I'd say that here in Victoria, if people know her at all, it's in connection with her work in the AFL (Australian Football League; not soccer or rugby but our game, played since the early 1850s), notably in getting the AFL women's League off the ground. After all that, being GG should be a doddle!

[TLLK]

On recommendation by PM @AlboMP, His Majesty King Charles III has approved the appointment of Ms Samantha Mostyn AO as Australia's next Governor-General.

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australias-new-governor-general

Congratulations to Australia on the appointment of the new Governor General.

[PrincessOfPeace]

Meet the anti-monarchist who will be representing King Charles in Australia: Republican businesswoman who once branded Australia Day 'invasion day' in controversial deleted tweets is appointed Governor-General -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13269779/Meet-anti-monarchist-representing-King-Charles-Australia-Republican-businesswoman-branded-Australia-Day-invasion-day-controversial-deleted-tweets-appointed-Governor-General.html

[Curryong]

I just took it for granted that she was. Several of our GG's and many of our State Governors, who have the same powers, are republicans and have talked about it on occasion. And Australia Day has become contentious among younger sectors of the Aus population over the past decade.

[PrincessOfPeace]

The Canadian parliament broke into God Save the King after MPs voted against removing the oath of allegiance.

The Government and most of the Liberal and Conservative MPs joined forces to vote down the private member's bill, which was supported by the Left-wing NDP and nationalist Bloc Québécois parties.

MPs voted to keep Section 128, which requires that new parliamentarians must swear to be "faithful and bear true allegiance" to the reigning monarch, by 113 votes to 197.

Greg Fergus, the speaker, repeatedly called for order but eventually gave up as the members continued, undeterred. They carried on until they reached the end of the first verse.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/11/canadian-parliament-breaks-into-god-save-the-king/

[Curryong]

Would they know any more than the first verse? Most people don't.

Good Grief. Well, that would certainly never happen here. Our vote of Allegiance remains but the vast majority of members of the House of Reps and the Senate are known to be republicans.

[PrincessOfPeace]

Today is #ANZACDay – which honours the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.

https://x.com/RoyalFamily/status/1783193031702626671

On #AnzacDay we remember all Australians and New Zealanders who have served and died in military operations #LestWeForget 🇦🇺🇳🇿

https://x.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1783247951675957378

[Curryong]

Up early today for the Dawn Service at our local memorial. Don't go to the city one any more. Anzac Day is still important here. Thousands have lined the streets to see the marches today, young and old, all ethnicities looking on. It's mostly our Vietnam vets marching nowadays, (those that can still do it) and ex Peace Keeping forces from different conflicts. Friends went to see the Commonwealth Graves from WW1 last year. Still heartbreaking I expect. I saw them as a schoolgirl in France and Belgium but not at Gallipoli.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13347019/anzac-day-dawn-services-australia-new-zealand.html