Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 2:08 pm Press Release: Unknown
Release From The Prime Minister's Office
The Government
will sponsor an amendment to the referendum bill so that the
question to be put at the referendum on 6 November will be
as follows:
An Act to alter the Constitution to establish
the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen
and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed
by a two-thirds majority of the Members of the Commonwealth
Parliament.
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