Australians may vote in the 2010 federal elections on whether their country should become a republic. Green Senator Bob Brown has introduced legislation that would require the poll.
The Greens hope that proposing the legislation will help measure public opinion. According to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper 70 per cent of Australians want to end the country's constitutional link to Britain that means its shares that country's feudal head of state.
The Greens are a confederation of eight parties.