Sunset on the Empire?(deciding the fate of British monarchy over Australia)

From: Canada and the World Backgrounder | Date: May 1, 1999 | Copyright information

Australia is much farther down the road to republicanism than Canada is. A referendum is scheduled for late in 1999 on whether to abolish the monarchy by 2001

Australians have always been more fiercely independent than most other former British colonies, and they have never been fans of the stuffy British class-based pomp that the monarchy seems to symbolize.

So, it was no surprise when a majority of delegates at Australia's Constitutional Conference in Februa...

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