Kammala wannan magana: Halin jama'a yana canzawa a hankali, kodayake jamhuriya ba ta zama shawara mai mahimmanci ba har zuwa 1991, lokacin da Firayim Ministan Labor Paul Keating ya kafa Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Jamhuriyar don bincika yiwuwar Ostiraliya ta zama jamhuriya. A karkashin Firayim Ministan Liberal / National Coalition John Howard, Ostiraliya ta gudanar da tambayoyi biyu
raba gardama. Tambaya ta farko ta tambaya ko Ostiraliya ta zama jamhuriya tare da shugaban da majalisar ta nada, tsarin nadin jam'iyyun biyu wanda aka yanke shawara a baya a taron kundin tsarin mulki a watan Fabrairun 1998.