John Allen Jnr has covered (with a full interview with Austen Invereigh) a UK endeavour called “Catholic Voices”, which led on the front foot with media spots during the recent Papal Visit.
Read the interview here for background, and take a look at the media segments on the Catholic Voices website. You might start with this segment where Daniel Coughlan is the “Catholic Voice” on Al Jazeera News on 16th September. This is really impressive stuff.
I propose that
1) We replace the absentee monarch of Australia (who is also the Monarch of Great Britain) with an elected Australian monarchy.
2) The elected monarch exactly replaces the current monarch in the current constition.
3) The elected monarch has exactly the same powers, duties and responsibilities as those of the current absentee monarch. All the monarch's functions are carried out by his/her personal representatives (as is currently the case): federally by the Governor General, and in the states by the State Governors.
4) The Governor General and the Governors continue to be selected and appointed as they currently are, that is, by the premier with the approval of the monarch.
5) The monarch is elected to sovereignty over Australia for life, but his/her sovereignty is strictly non-hereditary.
6) The elective body is the "college of electors" comprised of the state governors and federal governor general.
7) The election of the monarch must be a unanimous decision on the part of the college of electors.
We need something like this here