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Originally Posted by Jacknch
The issue of Australia's head of state is naturally a matter that the Australians themselves should decide upon. However, I do wonder how it may feel to have an absent head of state living 12,000 miles away, who, along with her family, rarely visits the country she reigns over and by all accounts needs an invitation to do so!
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If you had asked me a year ago I would have said 'It's fine. It suits us (really meaning me) fine and I see no reason to change.' but over the last year I have come around to the belief that as long as we share a Head of State with other countries we can never be truly independent (but nor can they - and that includes the UK who has to share their Head of State as well).
The fact that our Head of State can't just turn up is annoying - besides the countries of which she is HoS which other countries would tolerate a situation where the Head of State actually needed an official invitation to visit the country of which they are Head of State? That is an anomoly and can only be fixed by having our own homegrown Head of State, in my opinion.