Cika wannan jumlar: Tambayar ko Sarauniya ko Gwamna Janar shi ne shugaban kasar Australia ya zama siyasa a cikin shekarun da suka gabata.
Zaben raba gardama na Australiya a shekarar 1999. Daga cikin hujjojin da aka gabatar a cikin wannan kamfen wasu sun kasance don riƙe ofishin gwamna-janar a matsayin wakilin (sunan) sarki, wasu kuma don shugaban ƙasa da aka zaɓa. 'Yan Republican sun haɗa da ra'ayin cewa Sarauniyar ita ce shugaban ƙasa kuma ba Ostiraliya ba, kuma, a matsayin haka, ya kamata a maye gurbinsa da ɗan ƙasar Ostiraliya; an taƙaita wannan a cikin taken su "mata don shugaban ƙasa". Masu adawa da matakin sanya Ostiraliya ta zama jamhuriya suna da'awar cewa Ostiraliya ta riga ta sami Australiya a matsayin shugaban ƙasa a cikin babban gwamnan, wanda, tun daga 1965, koyaushe ɗan ƙasar Australiya ne. Gwamna Janar a shekara ta 2004, Manjo Janar Michael Jeffery, ya ce a lokacin: "Maɗaukakin Sarki shi ne shugaban ƙasar Ostiraliya amma ni ne wakilin ta kuma a duk niyya da manufa na cika cikakken rawar da nake takawa". Koyaya, a shekara mai zuwa, ya ƙi sanya sunan Sarauniya a matsayin shugaban ƙasa, maimakon haka ya ce a cikin amsa kai tsaye, "Sarauniya ita ce masarauta kuma ina wakiltarta kuma ina aiwatar da duk ayyukan shugaban ƙasa". Babban gwamnan a al'ada yana wakiltar Ostiraliya a duniya, yana yin ziyara da karɓar ziyarar jiha, amma Sarauniyar kuma tana aiwatar da wasu ayyukan hukuma da ke wakiltar Ostiraliya a wajen Ostiraliya, kamar a Burtaniya.