The Australian Republican Movement has finalised its proposed changes to the Australian constitution.
Australians would be able to choose from up to 11 presidential candidates and the directly-elected winner would serve a five-year term, under proposed changes finalised by the Australian Republican Movement.of its proposed model in January, has now finalised its proposed constitutional changes for an Australian republic.
A future president would appoint a prime minister who had a majority in the House of Representatives, as the Governor-General currently does, but could not terminate a prime minister who had a majority in the House, as Sir John Kerr did to Gough Whitlam in 1975. “We have no say [about who is head of state] and unless we can make the changes we propose, we will never get a say,” he said.