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Australian Republicans insist Albanese hasn't abandoned them before King's visit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese scrapped an assistant ministry on the republic in July, but advocates say he still backs the idea.

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King Charles will visit Australia for the first time since becoming sovereign. AP/Alessandra Tarantino.

The movement pushing for an Australian republic insists Labor hasn’t abandoned its commitment to ditch the monarchy, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepares to welcome King Charles Down Under.

Charles’ arrival in Australia on Friday, his first visit since being crowned, has thrown the future of the monarchy in modern Australia back into the spotlight.

But with ambivalent public polling and the Voice to Parliament’s crushing defeat last year hanging over the debate, the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) faces an uphill battle to convince Australians to back change.

ARM co-chair Esther Anatolitis told Capital Brief the visit would prove a “galvanising” moment, a reminder that we have a foreign head of state who “only works for us part-time”.