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An aspirational young Ross Mooney became a republican when he was gutted after his first vote was effectively thrown out in the Whitlam dismissal, and 81-year-old Dorothy Collings vows she will live to see an Australian head of state.

These are just two of Canberra's passionate republicans and part of the Australian Republican Movement's honorary ambassadors, announced yesterday. Movement chairman, and ANU politics professor John Warhurst said the ambassadors were part of the organisation's new grassroots approach.

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