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Coronate Buddy Franklin

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

Advocates for an Australian republic have spent the last two decades patiently waiting for the Queen of England to die.

The revolutionaries reckon it will be easier to sever constitutional ties with Great Britain when Charles III is stamped upon the coins. As Malcolm Turnbull is fond of saying, there are more Elizabethans in Australia than there are monarchists.

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