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Originally Posted by Astrophe
Set up to fail? That was the model agreed on at the time and the Australian people needed to know EXACTLY what they were voting for.
If you want to just replace the Governor General with a president without modernising our whole system of government, then you are advocating spending billions of dollars changing currency, stationary, dept names and everything else you can think of, for virtually no benefit-absolutely ridiculous!
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'Modernising the whole system' would be a bridge too far and would doom any constitutional change of that nature. Let's just inch forward and take one step at a time. An Australian head of state, first, and then other changes (as deemed necessary)to follow at a later stage.