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The author offers observations on politics in Australia as of January 2020. He discusses the vote of the public against the republic in 1999, the prospect of another round of republican government from Republican Movement chairman Malcolm Turnbull and his friends, and the preferred political model of Republican Movement chairpirate Peter FitzSimmons.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The author states that the serial welfare families in Australia is a primary constituency of the ALP while the other sector consisted of small and big business, battlers and aspirationals, and other rural dwellers is the constituency of the Coalition. He relates that the ALP activists who did not have career outside politics need to use the political system to have employment for themselves and their allies.

The article focuses on the constitutional change in Australia. It discusses the author's view on a referendum held in Australia in early November 1999 when Australians were asked to vote on two proposed laws to alter the Constitution. The said referendum was implemented during the administration of Prime Minister John Howard.

The article reflects on the author's views regarding preference voting in Australia.. He believes that preference voting which is a system used in the country is not logical because each voter is obliged to vote for all the candidates competing the electorate. He further argues that it is illogical and corrupts the political system of the country and that Australians are only using the system for a reason that it is claimed to always find the political candidate with mass support.