Why adulation for the Queen won’t stop the republic
There will be pitfalls and perils on the way, but the wave of emotion after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II has not put an end to the push for an Australian republic.
As Ukraine mounted a counter-offensive against Russia and global financial markets plunged, the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, the ABC and Australian commercial TV networks gorged on the same live image of a black five-door Mercedes-Benz E-Class driving to Edinburgh, Scotland.
One detail explained it all. A coffin at the back was draped in the Royal Standard.
