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Old 12-06-2009, 04:51 AM   #5 (permalink)
Fruitonica
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I'm apathetic about the whole issue, but if it was put to a vote I'd probably side with the Republic. I guess, it just seems like an exercise in pointlessness to have a head of state which we don't really care about. I haven't really looked into how it would affect our government though.

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I don't think another government can dissolve our government 'whenever they feel like it' in fact after all my research I don't think that has ever happened and doubt it would ever happen in such a way which would be dictatorial.
It's not the same thing, but Governor Generals have some pretty absurd powers. Take the Whitlam affair, our elected Prime Minister was dismissed by someone whose position was not at all democratically decided.
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