{"id":722227,"date":"2026-06-08T03:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722227\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:10:18","slug":"no-kings-why-australia-needs-its-own-republic-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722227\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kings: Why Australia needs its own republic movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

As millions march under the banner of \u2018No Kings\u2019 in the United States, it’s time Australians took a fresh look at their own unelected head of state, writes GJ Burchall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

THERE IS ANOTHER No Kings<\/a> protest organised for the American Republic next weekend.<\/p>\n

The first, in June 2025, brought an estimated 5 million people onto the streets; 7 million in October 2025; 9 million in March 2026.<\/p>\n

The largest citizen protests<\/a> in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations are to call out President Trump for trying to declaim like a demagogic Divine Ruler, super-supreme head-of-state, who claims sovereignty by clamping a leftover pageant tiara to his bizarre coif.<\/p>\n

But in the Australian Free State, which sadly suffers under the real, awful deal,\u00a0there’s nary a whimper. Why are there no Aussie No Kings gatherings?<\/p>\n

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Lest we forget: Australia is just another piece of property-grab by this unelected \u201cKing\u201d and his dysfunctional family. To dismiss this parasitic clan as cute and \u201cceremonial\u201d is to forget that to one-third of Australians who have overseas birth or parentage, this \u201ctradition\u201d is totally alien.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s to forget that around one quarter of Australia\u2019s land belongs to the tarnished \u201ccrown\u201d.<\/p>\n

Let Charles Chucklehead<\/a> have Britain, if that is what he believes to be his due. Let him grift \u00a3132 million (AU$249.9 million)\u00a0 in projected \u201cwages\u201d this year, auction off the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland for offshore wind rights, and draw rent from \u00a31.5 billion (AU$2.8 billion) in property, while his Buckingham Palace residence is renovated at the public expense for another cool \u00a3369 million (AU$698.7 million).<\/p>\n

The English are apparently jolly content with that. They had the chance and threw it. Fed up with the toffs, there was a popular uprising in 1649<\/a> and Charles the Original<\/a> had his head lopped for the crime of high treason \u2014 not to mention being a<\/a> \u201ctyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Inexplicably, after a civil war and a draconian turn by that fiend Oliver Cromwell<\/a>, the forelock-tug British people chose to do an utterly bonkers thing and restore the monarchy, as if nothing had bloody happened, which it clearly, most bloodily had.<\/p>\n

Thus, Charles the Headless\u2019 son became Charles<\/a> the Reboot, and the clubby clan kept a grip on the entitlement and land titles all the way down to the current incumbent, Charles the Second Sequel.<\/p>\n

But, in Australia, people don\u2019t take kindly to being lorded over. If they don\u2019t like a leader, they are not shy about sending a helpful message. Consider the elections when enthroned prime ministers or opposition leaders have not only lost the vote, but their own seats.<\/p>\n

Presumably for \u201chigh treason\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"No<\/a><\/p>\n

Why not shuck the royals? Is it because they\u2019re \u201cinoffensive\u201d? Is it because they don\u2019t currently \u201churt\u201d and \u201coppress\u201d as they did in Ireland, India, America, parts of Africa and countless other colonies?<\/p>\n

But what about hurt pride? Should Australia be all \u201cshe\u2019ll be right\u201d about having a foreign head-of-state, which can (and has) dismissed an elected government? Can it be Olympics-proud when the flag hoisted is one-quarter dominated by the standard of another nation?<\/p>\n

Even benign Canada put an end to that sort of guff with a great national flag. Wouldn\u2019t it be grand to have a new Australian banner fly at the Brisbane Games?<\/p>\n

Nothing will change, unless the Australian people want it to. There will be no war, no bloodshed, no nation-split-in-two. But it\u2019s time to call \u201ctime\u201d. Time to truly break free. Some half-wit politician once said<\/a>: \u201cWe will talk about an Australian republic after Elizabeth 2.0 dies\u201d. Then it was \u201cafter Charles the Tired Second Sequel is crowned\u201d. And now? Wait until that weasel William ascends? It must stop.<\/p>\n

Let the Poms play this medieval game, but not 21st-century Australia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Look at how Chukka wants to have as many birthdays as he owns properties. His delivery date was in November, but he opts for June because the weather is better (for Britain!) \u2014 but for most of the Australian colonies, June is the coldest, wettest month of the year. Western Australia and Queensland opt for September and October, respectively (respectfully?).<\/p>\n

Can Australia have an alternate public holiday for Independence Day? Wouldn\u2019t that be something?<\/p>\n

Will someone please organise a No Kings protest for Australia? The numbers will not be as high as those in the U.S., but have the potential to be bigger than any Neo-Nazi, anti-immigration, or First Nation rally.<\/p>\n

Get mad. Spread the message. Look at smoking. Everybody just about now has the message about puffing in public. So let all those old \u2018No Smoking\u2019 signs be re-purposed. Simply strike out the \u2018Smo\u2019 and you\u2019ve got a big bunch of ready-made \u2018No King\u2019 placards.<\/p>\n

Take them to the streets. It is about reason, not treason.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

GJ Burchall<\/a>\u00a0is a journalist, scriptwriter and educator who was born and bred in Melbourne and lives in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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