Nicola Roxon wants Republicans to decide on one model and then pursue that. Roxon is a minimalist who wants a Head of State appointed by the Prime Minister. She outlines a process to get to the point where Australians can choose if they want a Republic, and in what form it should be.

From the article;

Ms Roxon said a Labor Government would have a three-step process: a plebiscite to ask if people wanted a republic, a second plebiscite to decide the selection method [presumably for HoS] and then that model put to a referendum.

This is the best way to determine if the people want a republic, and then in what form. This minimises an elite group, or politicians hijacking the process, as was the case in 1999.

However, organizing Australian Republicans can be like herding cats , they have an independent streak. But it is better that way in my opinion, rather than a monolithic organization, Republicans are constantly arguing their beliefs and models in the market of popular opinion. This is a good thing.

South Sea Republic is collecting models , if anyone has a model they would like to have in this, grab an account and post an article describing the model.

cam
Cam Riley: South Sea Republic. Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic.

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  • cam . # .
    Rowdy also wrote on this article: on his site, Pharoz . I cant deep-link to his actual entry on it though.

    cam
  • cam . # .
    Doh ignore parent comment: I am a dumb-arse. This is the deep-link to Rowdy\'s article .
  • Rowdy . # .
    Discussing Republican Models: G\'Day Cam,
    Thanks for linking to my post. I basically copied the article in The Sunday Age \"Republican model \'critical\'\" to draw attention to it. Yesterday I also looked at the Wikipedia entry for Australian republicanism and added a link to the page. The Wikipedia entry included the McGarvie Model as a Copernican one, but I don\'t think that it is.

    I think that you are correct about the need to now start debating about models. The new Copernican Models represent a possibility for bringing the topic back into the public agenda. David Latimer, as you know, has done alot of work on these new models.
  • cam . # .
    Could of sworn SSR was a link from that page too: Looks like it has gone, cant see it in the version history of the page either.

    cam
  • cam . # .
    hmmmm: I am going to re-add it.

    cam
  • Whoops: Looks like this comment breaks the stylesheet in IE.  Damn page-widening trolls :)
  • An aside: This is what SSR looks like all the time on my HPC.
  • cam . # .
    ugh: it looks terrible in IE! Stupid goddamn MS. They never have their sh*t together.

    cam