After three decades, why are taxpayers still forced to underwrite something they clearly don’t want, a politicians’ republic? The reaction to any referendum should always be, as Alan Jones famously said in 1999, ‘If you don’t know, vote No.’
This push is not because of some noble belief in republicanism. Nor is it to avenge Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of Gough Whitlam.
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