By Michael Perry Sun Jan 27, 10:22 PM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Australia's head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Australia can become a republic, said one of the country's leading politicians and former head of the republican movement.Queen Elizabeth must die or abdicate for Australian republic - Yahoo! NewsMalcolm Turnbull, now opposition treasury spokesman, said Australians would not vote for a republic while the country's monarch reigned.
The majority of Australians support their country becoming a republic, but a 1999 vote on a republic failed because Australians could not agree on the type of republic.
So, Aussies still don't know what it's like to be on their own without hanging onto the the skirt of Queen Elizabeth??