Australians for Constitutional Monarchy in the Media “Let us declare that our head of state should be one of us”, opposition leader Bill Shorten said. ”But Governor-General Quentin Bryce was often sent overseas as the Australian head of state by the very government in which he was a minister,” ACM’s David Flint reminded the media.

East and Southeast Asian constitutional monarchies. The Kingdom of Bhutan; the Kingdom of Cambodia; Japan; and the Kingdom of Thailand have constitutional monarchies where the monarch has a limited or ceremonial role. Thailand changed from traditional absolute monarchy into a constitutional one in 1932, while the Kingdom of Bhutan changed in 2008.

Limited monarchies can be further broken down into several sub-types such as a constitutional monarchy, a mixed monarchy, or a federal monarchy. As a result of these variations, the role and power of the modern monarch varies from country to country. While a few monarchs are still the undisputed rulers of their nations, many are essentially ...