BTW I have heard that Australia is considering splitting from the Monarchy.

Australian republic 'inevitable,' says FM
Sun Apr 20, 5:03 AM ET



SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's split from the British monarchy is "inevitable" but is not an urgent priority for the government, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

[The issue of a republic has been a key item to emerge from a two-day 2020 summit, a gathering of 1,000 of the nation's "best and brightest."
The summit was called by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to generate "big ideas" after his election in November ended almost 12 years of conservative rule.
Responding to enthusiastic support for a split from the British monarchy from the Canberra meeting, Smith said while the centre-left Labor government favoured a republic, it was not a top priority.
"I regard it as inevitable. I don't see it occurring in 2010," he said.
"It's one of those things I think the nation state will attend to in due course," he told Network Ten.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is hugely popular in Australia, and Smith said that as long she she ruled, this held back momentum for change.
"There's... something of a view in the community that the appropriate time to move is when the current monarch moves off from her position and whenever that might be," he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she believed the summit "was accurately reflecting a new sense of engagement and interest with the republic debate."
"The majority of Australians, I think we can say, want to move to a republic, but there are a variety of views about what kind of republic," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"The sense coming out of the summit has been a sense of urgency and I suspect that will be the subject of more discussion today."
The Australian Monarchist League said the 2020 summit delegates had been biased towards a republic from the outset and their views were not necessarily representative of the wider community.
The league's Phillip Benwell told the ABC there was no need for the country to cut its ties with the British monarchy.
"At a time when there's no problem with our constitution, when there's no constitutional crisis, why move to fix something that doesn't need fixing, just because people don't like one part of our constitution -- and that is the Queen and the Crown?" he said.
The 2020 summit includes politicians past and present, bankers and business leaders, experts and academics and even a couple of Hollywood stars.

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