Well, surprise surprise my letter to the Editor goes:
No one is surely surprised that the republic tide has 'turned'.What ever else the last so-called referendum was designed to do it was not designed to tell us whether Australians wanted to become a republic or not. By clever politicking on the part of the incumbent government that fundamental question was side-stepped in favour of bickering over the style of republic we might have. Well, the rest is history!Let us now have a proper vote on the fundamental question.
