CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia should drop its ties to the British monarchy after Queen Elizabeth II's reign, the prime minister said Tuesday, raising the contentious issue of a republic just days before tightly contested national elections.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, whose center-left Labor Party has long held that the country should dump the British monarch as its head of state and become a republic, said Australians have "deep affection" for Queen Elizabeth II but that she should be Australia's final monarch.
"What I would like to see as prime minister is that we work our way through to an agreement on a model for the republic," Gillard told reporters. "I think the …
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