Since federation Australia has been pretty well free of the control of England. When the system was originally set up it was set up to recognise the Queen as the head of state and the Governor General as her go between. Until recently the House of Lords in Britain could overrule the Australian Supreme Court. The Australian People enjoy a standard of living and personal freedoms as well as social services unequalled in many parts of the world and they feel that it is partially the result of the way our government and constitution are set up. That is our head of state has absolutely no power in the day to day running of the country. The only real effect he has had on the Australian Government is that he had to sack the government once because as a result of a stalemate between Australia's leading parties the public service was going to run out of money. So come the time when a referendum is held to decide if Australia should become a republic, the voter s in their wisdom and in the knowledge that politicians were basically untrustworthy said NO. Or to put it more succinctly if the wheels ain't broke don't fix it.
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Yes Australia is part of the Commonwealth. It is officially called the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia's full name is the Commonwealth of Australia.
The official name of Australia is the Commonwealth of Australia.
Officialy Australia still is the "Commonwealth of Australia". There has never been a time at which Australia's official name has stopped being the Commonwealth of Australia
because Australia is part of the british commonwealth
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Australia is simply "Australia", or the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia is part of the commonwealth. Therefore they are allowed to participate at the games.
The Commonwealth Bank is located in Australia
All Australian bank notes had "COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA" on them until 1972. Following a change of government in November 1972, the words "COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA" were replaced with "AUSTRALIA".
When the states of Australia joined together to form the Commonwealth of Australia, it was called Federation.
Australia's full title is Commonwealth of Australia.