Australia’s constitutional monarchy, much like Canada’s, is one of the great success stories to have grown out of the British imperial and colonial era. It is a unique system that would have been impossible to invent from scratch: a constitutional monarch who can never be a threat to the political order because not only does he or she never participate in daily political debate within a country because he or she lacks the power, but just as importantly because he or she doesn’t actually live in the country.
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