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Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by motohagiography on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:19PM (#32301188)
The Queen's representative, the Governor General is the head of a government that is not mitigated by explicit inaliable freedoms that act as a check on it, or divide its powers in a way to prevent it being converted to a classic tyranny. It would require a whole new constitution to remove the powers that these governments have evolved to abuse.

Hence it seems predictable that a popular movement toward new constitutional republics could rise. Without a means to defend your basic freedoms from the people who eventually rise to make up a government, a constitution and a charter of rights are just conventions. These parliamentary democracies are in a co-ordinated transition to something else.

Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by femto on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:30PM (#32301683)
If anything such overreach will lead to a loss of support for republicanism.

As it is I think Australians generally see the Queen (and Governor General to a lesser extent) as being outside politics. There is a deep cynicism in the electorate that it will be possible to select a head of state in a manner that will not be politicised, leading to a loss of independence of the head of state.