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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

[PrincessOfPeace]

The first official Canadian portrait of King Charles III, as King of Canada, is now available from the Government of Canada.

You can download it now or request a printed version:

https://t.co/0AjFt88J5Y

[PrincessOfPeace]

[Curryong]

Where is the source for this survey?  If it is from the same polling firm that submitted that last polling then that firm, which is not YouGov (which is the most accurate) is pretty obscure. And the target number of respondents is pretty low at 1,000.

Most public figures are more popular than politicians of any stamp in all monarchical countries. These sort of surveys have been undertaken for years, with the same result.  That result has nothing to do with whether Australia will eventually become a republic or not. Royal figures are purely ceremonial. They do not make decisions affecting people's lives that politicians who actually govern have to.

Ex politicians do not usually end up as Presidential candidates in countries which have a system of Presidents that undertake purely ceremonial roles, like Ireland for example, which is my preferred model as against an elected representative as the role shouldn't be a popularity contest.

[PrincessOfPeace]

The twitter account I copied it from says YouGov Australia released today

[Curryong]

The twitter account I copied it from says YouGov Australia released today

Thanks, then actually the YouGov figures for both the King and Queen are pretty low for ceremonial figures who don't actually do anything, Camilla's in particular, and both are nothing like what Queen Elizabeth used to get. Camilla's are lower than Albanese, our PM whose government is in a slump at the moment.

[PrincessOfPeace]

[Curryong]

Missed this before. For a start off, Tony Abbott is an ex Prime Minister of Aus, who made a hash of his brief tenure as PM so any pronouncements of his about Australia's future direction can be taken with a mountain of salt. He has always been known as an arch conservative (fought the same sex marriage bill down to the wire in 2019 in spite of it being passed by 62% of the population in a plebiscite) and has been a devout monarchist all his life. He's hardly a shining example of forward thinking!

The tide of history is against monarchies, especially foreign monarchies imposed on countries halfway across the world and younger people know it. Aussies under 30 want a republic by a large margin, larger than their Brit counterparts of the same age who also want the same thing. The only reason it's not here in Australia now is because other things are pressing, like Chinese aggression off our coast, cost of living, mortgage rates etc. it's certainly not because the Aus public are in love with William and Kate on their brief visits every few years or any other royal, but because at this time we have other things on our plate.

However, a republic will come. No doubt whatsoever about that!


Tony Abbott making an idiot of himself again as PM in 2015.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-26/abbott-defends-knighthood-for-prince-philip/6046380

[PrincessOfPeace]

Tomorrow is Commonwealth Day.

In his annual message to the 56 nations of the Commonwealth, The King reflects on the friendship and support which member states receive from one another.



Royal Website

[PrincessOfPeace]

King Charles III during an audience with Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada at Buckingham Palace, London.



https://x.com/aaronchown/status/1901678912062550270

[PrincessOfPeace]

Video of the meeting

[PrincessOfPeace]

The King, as Head of the Commonwealth, received The Hon. Shirley Botchwey upon her appointment as the new Commonwealth Secretary-General at Windsor Castle this morning.



https://x.com/RoyalFamily/status/1908122488208232919