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Who is our head of state?(The Constitution)
THE JULY-AUGUST issue of Quadrant published an edited version of Sir David Smith's submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee's inquiry into an Australian republic, in which he argued that the governor-general, not the Queen, is Australia's head of state.
Before 1996 it was almost universally accepted that the Queen was Australia's legal or de jure head of state, while her "representative", the governor-general, could be described as out effective or de facto head of stare. Thus, in a speech on Australia Day 1991, published in Quadrant in May 1991, Sir David Smith remarked that
we have a monarchical system of government, ...
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