Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system. Most Australians identify this feature as the one distinct advantage of our system over America’s. This innate feeling, no doubt revealed in focus groups, explains Malcolm Turnbull’s much-ridiculed attempt to have the word ‘republic’ struck out of the 1999 republic referendum question.
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