Have Meghan and Harry saved Australian democracy?

I used to be a fervent Australian republican and would have supported this in the past:

Australians will be asked to vote on a republic in a $160 million national plebiscite under a Labor plan that rejects a postal survey in favour of a public ballot to resolve decades of dispute.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has signed off on the funding plan to ask voters a “yes or no” question in the next term of Parliament, without any funding for official campaigns for or against the change.

The plan assumes the same cost as the federal government’s original plebiscite on same-sex marriage but is double that of the postal survey eventually adopted and run last year.

But no longer. For me the battle to preserve Australian democracy from the Chinese Communist’s Party’s sharp power is better served by retaining our historic cultural links with the Anlgopshere. So I am pleased at this even if it is for a whacko reason, at The Australian:

Support for a republic has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years — thanks largely to Prince Harry and ­Meghan fuelling a dramatic shift in ­national sentiment — with ­almost half of Australian voters opposed to cutting ties with the British monarchy.

An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian following last month’s royal visit by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shows fewer than one in seven people claimed to have a strong attachment to change.

The number of pro-repub­licans has taken a sharp turn downward, with just 40 per cent still in favour of change now compared with 50 per cent at the time of the previous royal visit, by Prince Charles in April.

Put Malcolm Turnbull in charge of the movement to finish it off.