An unfashionable monarchy?

Based on current trends, it is more likely than not that the dysgenic traits carried by Aboriginal people and nature will decide the matter and remove this argument for change in the fullness of time.

All that remains for radical Aboriginal rights activists to do is to reconcile themselves with the fact their future lies not in statements of separateness but as an ethnic minority with equal citizenship under one law in a united Australian Federation.

According to the Australian Labor Party’s platform, it "will conduct plebiscites to establish support for an Australian head of state and the preference for different forms of a republic".

This process model should be opposed and a second referendum on a republic put back at least 30 years after the question was first brought to a head.

Australians deserve constitutional certainty. The two non-binding polls have the potential to destabilise one of the most successful constitutions in the world, without it being replaced by an unknown preference. A government can make support for a plebiscite virtually anything they want by the formulation of words put to the electorate, who are in effect asked to write politicians a blank cheque.

A less burdening alternative for the Australian taxpayer with the same effect would be to commission the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct a Republic Attitudes Survey similar to the national poll on preferences for the national anthem in 1974.

There should be a moratorium on an Australian republic until 2029, with the agreement of the parliamentary parties backed by legislation similar to the Flags Amendment Act 1998 (Cth).

A guaranteed period without the possibility of a referendum on Australia's constitutional status would give republicans time to complete the monumental task of developing a framework for a popularly elected presidency and let the text of their proposed amendment lie on the table, ready to be tabled in parliament and put to the people under section 128 of the constitution. It would also give the government the opportunity to implement the recommendation of the inquiry into the Plebiscite for an Australian Republic Bill 2008 for the "establishment of an ongoing public awareness campaign on Australia's constitutional system which engages as wide a range of the public as possible".