Some journalists, politicians, academic lawyers, and supporters of an Australian republic continue to claim that it is obvious from reading the Constitution that the Queen, and not the Governor-General, is our Head of State.
However, the question does not depend on a superficial reading of the Constitution, or on the views of the Queen’s British advisers.
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