let's go live now to a process that jenny hawking author other barbara feel on form australian primeinister gov with dylan who controversially fired by the queen's representative the governor general welcome to the program it's great to have you with us so most of all i'd like to know do australians that do most australians still back the monarchy and if so why. look opinion polls do vary all national but actually most horror show the most australians would prefer to be a republic we did have a show in try to save a referendum to become a republic in 1990 that did not succeed not because most people don't support that concept but because we had a difference of opinion about the appointment process or the electoral process through which the head of state would be would be appointed so i think particularly as the queen reaches the end of her life and we move to king charles the extraordinary thing is that the british want to act automatically becomes australia's head of state now that's just an untenable situation for any modern democracy in which we australians have no say over who ha

will this year become the latest to remove the modoc from the role in their countries professor jenny hawking has written the biography of former australian prime minister. who was controversially fired by the queen's representative in 175 she told us that the royal family is in a difficult position. we australians have no say over who hate of state will be its own here is a title and i think what the mayor and harry interview is showing most clearly is just how out of touch the monarchy is with everyday life particularly so many thousands of miles away in australia questions being raised about what is the role of an inherited maki with vast extraordinary. wealth and significant pound despite the fact that they were paid italy claim they have no political power that the queen private secretary was in intensive discussions with the governor general so joan could have tried to him just missing the government the elected government of australia and of course the government knew nothing about those conversations and nor did the australian people so this been real questions raised about the contem