Australian News

Support Grows For Direct Election

Eighty percent of Australians favour direct election of the President when Australia become a republic, according to a poll commissioned by The Australian in late 2002. Even monarchists would prefer this to the other options.

Only thirty-five percent of those polled were opposed to a republic. And ninety-five percent believed that the head of state should be an Australian. At present a foreigner, Briton Elizabeth Windsor, holds that office.

Fifty-four percent wanted another referendum on whether Australia should become a republic within 5 years.

Against the monarch but not ready for a republic

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