60 Percent of Australians Want to Stay Connected to the Monarchy, Poll Shows
Support for the monarchy in Australia has risen over the last decade, with up to 60 percent of Australians stating that the country should remain as a monarchy, a recent Roy Morgan poll shows.
The result came after the death of Queen Elizabeth II reignited the debate about whether Australia should become a republic with an elected president or stay under the British monarchy and be one of the Commonwealth realms.
According to a Roy Morgan survey conducted on Sep. 12 with 1,012 Australians, only 40 percent believe Australia should remove the monarch as head of state, down five percentage points since Nov. 2012, while those backing the monarchy were up five percentage point….