What is Monarchy of Australia?
{{Infobox monarchy | royal_title = King | realm = Australia | native_name = | coatofarms = | coatofarms_article = Coat of arms of Australia | type = Commonwealth | image = King Charles III (July 2023).jpg | caption = The King of Australia | incumbent = [[Charles III]] | incumbentsince = 8 September 2022 | his/her = His | heir_apparent = | website = }} The '''Monarchy of Australia''' is a form of government in which a hereditary [[monarch]] is the [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] of [[Australia]] according to the rules of the [[Australian Constitution]]. This means that the job of King or Queen of Australia passes down through the [[House of Windsor|Royal Family]]. When the King or Queen dies, the job passes to their son, daughter or next in line to the throne. As monarch of Australia, they then have ceremonial and constitutional duties as part of the government of Australia. The [[Governor General of Australia]] does the work of the monarch for the national Government. State Governors do the work of the monarch for State Governments of Australia. ==History== [[Image:Opening of the first parliament.jpg|thumb|350px|Opening of the first [[Parliament of Australia]] in 1901 by the Duke of Cornwall and York (later [[King George V]]).]] The British [[First Fleet]] of convict ships arrived at Sydney in 1788 and [[New South Wales]] became a [[Crown Colony]], with [[King George III]] of England as its King. The British set up other colonies all around Australia with powerful colonial governors chosen by Britain. From the 1820s, these colonies began to get more and more self-government and from the 1850s they began to become [[parliament|parliamentary democracies]], which kept the Kings and Queens of the [[United Kingdom]] as their Heads of State, with royal duties done by Colonial Governors who had less and less real power. In 1901, after a vote, the British colonies of Australia decided to become one country, w