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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-29/prime-minister-addresses-kings-honour-for-ben-roberts-smith/104039638

Among other things, he shot and killed an unarmed teenager in Afghanistan, literal babykiller

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Not a government decision?

Help me understand where I'm getting confused here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I guess no actual Australian politician or government official had a say in it, just a foreign monarch.

I know a lot of Aussies have been pushing to break away from the crown.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I know what you're saying here but the king is absolutely a part of the Australian government and this is cheap equivocation on behalf of the Australian prime minister who should know very well that Australia is a not a republic.

You can't be the head of state for a constitutional monarchy and claim that the monarch isn't a part of the government.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

In countries with parliamentary systems, oftentimes "The Government" is used to refer to the coalition of governing parties, rather than the state apparatus as a whole.

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