Queenie

I have spotted a problem with Australia being a constitutional monarchy and it is this:

The Queen may have a particularity bad dream about, say, Tony Abbott, and wake up the next day and say ‘fuck this’.

Email to whoever is the governor general that morning; “Dear xxxx, I can’t do it any more. You are on your own”.

Our problem is that we have no way of replacing the Queen if she ducks out like this.

We can’t force the poms to replace her with a son or a daughter.

We can’t appoint the governor general as head of state since that would be unconstitutional.

We would be forced to change our constitution to fix the problem and that would take months, possibly years (because we can never agree on such things and have a weird state-by-state requirement to enact these changes).

I am surprised we can live with a head of state that only remains in their position through their own good will and can pull out any time, at a whim.

Whereas we cannot pull out of the deal at a whim, nor can we replace the queen with another if she isn’t doing her job well, or at all.

It’s very ironic that all the Australians in the world can’t build a republic but our Queen can, with a single email.