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		</div><p>Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said the television interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex bolstered his argument for Australia severing its constitutional ties to the British monarchy.</p>
<p>Mr Turnbull met Meghan and Harry in April 2018 four months before he was replaced by the current prime minister Scott Morrison in an internal power struggle.</p>
<p>“It’s clearly an unhappy family or at least Meghan and Harry are unhappy. It seems very sad,” Mr Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp.</p>
<p>“After the end of the Queen’s reign, that is the time for us to say: OK, we’ve passed that watershed.</p>
<p>“Do we really want to have whoever happens to be the head of state of, the king or queen of the UK, automatically our head of state?,” Mr Turnbull added.</p>
<p>The Queen is Australia’s head of state.</p>
<p>Mr Turnbull was a leading advocate for Australia selecting an Australian citizen as its head of state when he was chairman of the Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000.</p>
<p>A referendum on Australia becoming a republic was defeated in 1999, despite opinion polls showing that most Australians believed that their country should have an Australian head of state.</p>
<p>Many advocates of an Australian republic want a US system where the president is popularly elected rather than serving in a figurehead role as proposed in 1999.</p>
<p>Mr Morrison was not questioned about the royal interview during a press conference on Tuesday.</p>
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