ACM Media Release 7 January 2026
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) today asserts that the current breakdown in civil protections for the Australian Jewish community has triggered the necessity for the Governor-General to exercise her constitutional role as the ultimate check on executive governance.
The Mandate of 1999 ACM reminds the nation that in the 1999 referendum, the Australian people rejected a ‘Politicians’ Republic’ that would have stripped the Crown of its vital reserve powers. The public voted to retain a system where the Governor-General is more than a “rubber stamp.” Unlike the proposed republican model—where a Prime Minister could dismiss a Head of State instantly without grounds, notice, or a right of appeal—our current system empowers the Governor-General to ensure the Ministry acts within the law.
A Breach of the Rule of Law ACM points to the government’s continued failure to provide the equal protection of Jewish citizens in their places of worship, their synagogues, and in their schools, and kindergartens. This long-standing policy of neglect and of the consequent toleration of antisemitism, previously denounced by Labor’s own Barry Cohen, has reached a crisis point. The unchecked displays of genocidal antisemitism at the Sydney Opera House in 2023 and the subsequent lack of firm legal consequences, followed by two years of significantly increased toleration of antisemitism, suggest constant breaches by the authorities of constitutional, criminal, and civil standards.
The Call for a Royal Commission Guided by the principles established by the principal authors of the Constitution, ACM believes these events have reached the threshold for the exercise of the reserve powers.
“The Governor-General must, at the very least, demand that Mr Albanese explain his government’s actions—or lack thereof—in relation to the withdrawal of protection from a section of the Australian citizenry,” said David Flint, ACM’s National Convenor.
ACM contends that the only satisfactory resolution to such a constitutional inquiry would be for the Prime Minister to advise the calling of a Royal Commission. This Commission must be:
- endowed with comprehensive terms of reference regarding the rise of antisemitism and state failure.
- headed by respected judges and senior legal counsel.
- independent of the executive influence that has allowed the current situation to persist.
Conclusion The Crown remains the final guarantor of the law. If the government cannot or will not protect its people equally under the law, the constitutional mechanisms that the people defended in 1999 must be activated.
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Media Contact: David Flint 0419402919, [email protected]
About ACM: Australians for Constitutional Monarchy is the nation’s leading organisation dedicated to defending, preserving, and promoting Australia’s constitutional system. ACM led the No case nationally in the 1999 referendum