The MuddleHeaded Republic Author:Alan Atkinson The proposed replacement of the Australian monarchy with a republic is a highly controversial issue. Alan Atkinson addresses the current controversy and provides a provocative defense of monarchy. He argues that the facts about Australia's enduring attachment to the idea of monarchy are more — complicated than the New Republicans and the Prime Mi... more »nister's Republic Advisory Committee would like to believe. Atkinson explores the symbolic transformations that would occur in public life--the changes in moral purpose and responsibility--that would occur if this transformation to a republic were