Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Isn't the GG or a Royal useful for all of the ceremonial figurehead rituals of state stuff? I mean, it's not as though there has been any de facto royal power exercised in Oz for a goodly bit of time, no?
Actually royal power is exercised is ever day in Canada, Austrailia, and New Zealand. You see the position of Prime Minister has many perks, not the least of which is the right to use royal prerogative. Or as you would call it, executive power. What the Queen and her GG's over the globe have (along with many presidents) is reserve powers.

Our GG was told to use ond such reseve power by that slimey weasel Harper around new years.