The Malcolm Turnbull that supported an emissions trading scheme might be dead, but fuck, the one that wants Australia to become a republic is still alive and kicking.
The Prime Minister fronted a crowd at tonight’s Australian Republican Movement dinner, telling ’em he’s still deadset on being called El Presidente seeing us remove our final links to constitutional monarchy and the United Kingdom.
Read: he doubled-down on his take that eventually, Australia should be run by a president under a constitution and not ceremonially controlled by a monarch like Queen Elizabeth II.
“Only them can amend it.”
That way, he reckons, the cause would withstand the opposition that flattened the last vote on the matter back in 1999. He also galvanised supporters of the movement, saying the changes will eventually come through, given continual support:
.@TurnbullMalcolm says an Australian Republic is ‘far from inevitable’. #auspol pic.twitter.com/aXJR0GFSpn
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) December 17, 2016
As for when this proposed move would take place?
She’s a fighter though, so the dream of Australia under a president could be a ways off yet.
Source: ABC / The Daily Telegraph.
Photo: Pool / Getty.
