‘Don’t like facts’: Australian republican movement based on ‘mistaken belief’

Sky News contributor Kel Richards says the Australian republican movement is based on the “mistaken belief” that the country doesn’t have an Australian head of state because they “don’t like facts”. Writer and republican Thomas Keneally says Australia has limited itself to being a ‘pretend nation’ by retaining King Charles as its head of state. “He’s wrong,” Mr Richards said. “The whole republican movement is based on the mistaken belief that we don’t have an Australian head of state. “We do: the Governor General is the head of state, and he’s an Australian. “We discovered this for certain when the correspondence between Sir John Kerr and the Palace was released … they were letting him call the shots – he decided because he was the head of state. “Republicans don’t like facts.”