Britishness and the Failure of Australian Republicanism

Ben Wellings

doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2003.tb00048.x

Britishness and the Failure of Australian Republicanism

Ben Wellings^*

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-50
Number of pages	16
Journal	Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2003.tb00048.x
Publication status	Published - Sept 2003
Externally published	Yes

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