In Australia there is ambiguity about the nature of the Crown. The question whether there are divisible Crowns in right of the states is contested with the notion that there could be a Federal Crown.
Many people still think that the Crown in Australia is the old imperial British Crown of colonial Australia.
Perhaps the notion of a Federal Crown appeals to people who think of the Crown as being indivisible – as the old imperial British Crown was. Their model for the Crown may be that it is a monolithic institution.
So we need to consider that there are varying models of the Crown. Even if people accept that the Crown in Australia is independent of the British Crown since the Australia Acts 1986, there might be a lingering notion of the Crown in Australia as being monolithic.
What series of questions could help tease out the distinctions in these views about the Crown in Australia, and what are the perspectives that could widen people’s views on the matter?
