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"More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past associations and pretensions which the British nation, and in particular, the British monarch have long since abandoned. Nothing has done more to r ....

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.... that out of all of Australia's leading figures, Whitlam would have the most reason to feel strongly, one way or the other, about our "mother country". Today, Whitlam declares himself to be a Republican, but he confesses he only came to this way of thinking after his dismissal, when he and the nation saw for the first time just how much power the Queen and her representatives really had, despite their lack of control over day to day running of the Government. At the onset of his career, Whitlam was quite proud of his Queen - he had, after all, fought in the Airforce during the Second World War to defend Britain as well as Australia - b ....