avocadia . # .

Referendum:

A Powerless Head of State will - and has - lost at referendum because it is the status quo. The No case will stress that the model is indistinguishable from the status quo and say \"If you don\'t know, just vote No\". In my experience, people who don\'t have a dog in the fight, that is those who don\'t think about the political structure of Australia very often, voted No last time because the Yes vote entailed a very expensive way of having no change at all.

In an elect-the-GG model, the fear would be a Liberal-Labor contest

Well, at the very least you should be applauded for swimming against the current of conventional wisdom, that the last referendum failed because the model entailed the people having no say on the occupant of Yarralumla.