Alexander Vaults

And they haven't been able to agree, not since 1999 –

not since Federation, but during colonisation, when we were actually talking about this.

And I think the question to ask ourselves is, who exactly is advocating for Australia to become a republic?

Is it your local grocer who you've brought vegetables from for the last 30 years?

Or is it your barber?

Or is it anyone within your local community, your police officer, your firey?

Or is it the political class?

Or is it the academic class sheltered within the universities?

Just what are the motivations exactly behind the people who are pushing for a republic?

I think that's something that everyone should seriously ask themselves.

This is an excellent question.

thing that the king has done in my estimation.

First of all, it's historically informed because the late queen said exactly the same thing ahead of the 1999 referendum.

She said, it's the people's right to choose.

Second of all, would you prefer our sovereign to have said, no, no, the people can't choose.

I'm invoking my autocracy and cracking down.

No, I mean, that's ridiculous.

So what he has said is the epitome of democracy.

And that is something to celebrate.

We hear more and more about things coming out of America and other parts of the world, Russia perhaps, electoral interference.