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Originally Posted by Smidgey
A referendum put to the people of Australia by a pro-monarchy Prime Minister. You should research what the question at that referendum was. I know for a fact that there were plenty of Australian republicans who opposed that referendum because of what was being asked.
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I know full well what the referendum question was and I am very familiar with how the 1999 referendum on this in Australia went.
The republicans got a majority on the Constitutional Convention which preceded the referendum which they (thankfully) lost - failing to win a majority in any state.
Even if the republicans who you claim opposed the referendum question had voted for a republic it would still not have been approved in the referendum.