Argument: Australia could actually remain in the commonwealth as a republic

Supporting quotes

• Senator Alan Eggleston. “The Republic: an idea that has reached its time”. Address to the John Stuart Mill Society. September 22nd, 1997 – “We will no longer be ‘The Commonwealth of Australia’ This is not true. The term ‘Commonwealth’ is really another word for ‘Republic’. Sir Henry Parkes took the name from Cromwell’s Commonwealth.