Commentary
The 31st Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has unveiled his ministry. It consists of a total of forty-two ministers who were sworn in on June 1 by Governor-General David Hurley.
One notable choice is the appointment of Matt Thistlethwaite as Assistant Minister for the Republic. Although the appointment has attracted only a limited amount of attention, it is potentially of serious concern to Australia.
This is because Thistlethwaite’s appointment foreshadows the activist nature of Albanese’s Labor government with regard to the constitutional structures of Australia.
Not only has the prime minister thrown his unqualified support behind the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which seeks to entrench Aboriginal rights in the Constitution but, in appointing an assistant minister for the Republic, he has also disclosed his desire to radically change the constitutional framework of Australia, changing it from a monarchy to a republic….