Australian Monarchist League
The Australian Monarchist League is a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Sydney, Australia promoting the Constitutional Monarchy of Australia.
The League has established a Trust with a number of prominent Australian businessmen as Trustees. The most important role of the Trust is to raise and administer funds for opposing any future change to the constitution through a republican-inspired plebiscite or referendum.
The Australian Monarchist League was originally a branch of the Monarchist League in London. However, League members in Sydney felt that it needed to be seen as a wholly Australian body because of criticisms that it was an offshoot of the UK group. In 1993, the league severed affiliation with the London body. The League was part of the "no" campaign in the Australian republic referendum, 1999, which asked whether Australia should become a republic and whether Australia should alter the constitution to insert a preamble. Neither of the amendments passed.
The League has over 2,500 members with branches in each State and in the Australian Capital Territory. Many of its members are young people under the age of thirty. All office bearers are elected by the membership and serve on a voluntary basis.
See also
- Australian Constitution
- Australian Constitutional History
- Constitutional Monarchy
- Australians for Constitutional Monarchy
- Monarchist League of Canada
- Monarchist League of New Zealand