'The Elizabethan era is now over.' Australia could reconsider its ties to the British monarchy
to the Queen’s family on Twitter immediately after her death. But he added: “Now Australia must move forward…We need [a] Treaty with First Nations people, and we need to become a Republic.”, tells TIME that although they suspended their efforts in the weeks following the death of the Queen out of respect, their movement has seen “phenomenal growth” since the late monarch’s passing.
Soldiers fire a 96-gun salute to honor the life of Queen Elizabeth II at dusk in front of Parliament House in Canberra on September 9, 2022.Australia isn’t the only country considering changing its ties with the monarchy. Even before the Queen’s death, the republican movement was thriving in the Caribbean, owing to a larger reckoning over the legacy of British colonialism and the slave trade.
“I think that there’s an urgency there that is not here in Australia,” says Cindy McCreery, a senior lecturer in history at the University of Sydney who specializes in monarchy and colonialism. “But I also think that when those countries become republics, and there are fewer Commonwealth realms, more Australians may look around and think, ‘we really part of a shrinking group of nations…maybe it is time for us to join those countries.
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