Referendum to Republic

In 1999, a referendum was held in Australia due to the heated republican debate that had begun 5 years earlier. The debate was over the change of Australia's government from the constitutional monarchy to a republic. The referendum was held on the 6th of November, 1999 and the results were 6,410,787 for the no position on the republic and 5,273,024 for the yes position. The loss to the no position was often credited to the division of the type of republic, among the republicans, and the stiff resitance of monarchist groups. But what if that division was not as big, and the monarchist groups didn't put up such a resistance. What if Australia was a republic?

Background:
The republican movement that had been around in Australian since it's independence, but it began gaining support and momentum going into the 1990's. Thomas Keneally founded the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) in 1991 after the Labour party adopted republicanism as a policy in June the same year. By 1993, the invesment banker Malcom Turnbull became chairman of the ARM. Later that year, the Republican Advisory Committee was created by the incumbent prime ministers party (Labour) which later laid foundations for a proposed change in the Australian Constitution.

The Debate Heats Up:
In 1995, the