what has this got to do with australia not becoming a republic?

...with Australia not becoming a Republic?

Everything.

So you're saying the reason why the electorate voted against a republic was because they're racist. Don't you think it had something to do with an unelected president by any chance?

Racism is certainly a factor. So is the existence of essentially English institutions, that militate against oppositional ideas, on how Australia should conduct its domestic and international affairs.

We have a tradition of xenophobic nationalism that needs to be challenged.

 http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Let-Them-Drown.html

The idea that this is an Australian Nationalism is (as the Oz Day poster demonstrates) an absurdity.

The Republican debate was radical in the seventies -- a bore in the nineties. The proposed changes were too superficial to attract radical interest and the Republican faction was divided (as you mentioned) by the Presidential issue.

As usual, it was only the conservatives who saw the Republican idea as a threat to the existing status quo. The Left have moved away from Nationalism as an issue (sensible) but have ignored the erstatz Nationalism that has strenghened conservative rule here. (Not so sensible)

We believe Australia needs to seperate itself from a penal and genocidal past...

SMASH RASCISM.SMASH GLOBILIZATION.SMASH CAPITALISM.
SMASH NATIONALISM.THE EMANCIPATION OF THE WORKING CLASS MUST BE THE ACT OF THE WORKING CLASS!!

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A DISTRACTION