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Post-imperial nation that just can’t make the final cut

Charles Windsor is not popular in all his realms. But even the Albanese government is curiously reluctant to press a more self-confident identity.

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King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey tomorrow is world away from the speeches on Australia Day during the 1988 Bicentenary, when the then-prince addressed the great and the good gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House.

Attempting to assuage republicans present, he said that during his schoolboy years in Australia he had the “pommie bits knocked off him”.

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James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
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