TY - JOUR
T1 - Britishness and the Failure of Australian Republicanism
AU - Wellings, Ben
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003, Ain Shams University. All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - In 1999, Australians voted to reject the removal of the Queen as Head of State in Australia. It would be wrong though to see this vote as an endorsement of monarchy. However, the vote did throw issues of the role of Britishness in Australia into the political arena. In fact it was the residual Britishness of the republican movement and its commitment to the sovereignty of Parliament, rather than the Britishness of the monarchists, which was crucial in the defeat of the republican campaign.
AB - In 1999, Australians voted to reject the removal of the Queen as Head of State in Australia. It would be wrong though to see this vote as an endorsement of monarchy. However, the vote did throw issues of the role of Britishness in Australia into the political arena. In fact it was the residual Britishness of the republican movement and its commitment to the sovereignty of Parliament, rather than the Britishness of the monarchists, which was crucial in the defeat of the republican campaign.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2003.tb00048.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2003.tb00048.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1473-8481
VL - 3
SP - 35
EP - 50
JO - Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
JF - Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
IS - 2
ER -