Public won't back a 'politicians' republic', so Turnbull needs to offer a better model
- Written by Gregory Melleuish, Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong
Malcolm Turnbull is now more circumspect when it comes to the matter of an Australian republic. AAP/Dan HimbrechtsThe word republic has many meanings – but they can probably be reduced to two.
The first simply means a political order in which there is no king or queen at its apex. The Romans who invented the term res publica (public matter)...






