Elizabeth’s death and Charles’s ascension has Australia – at once an old and young country – questioning what sort of nation it is and wants to be
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At the schools and the surf clubs, the flags hung at half-mast. On the tallest sail of the Sydney Opera House, an image of a bejewelled Queen Elizabeth II beamed across the harbour.
There were speeches of great solemnity, and quiet ceremonies of memorial, bouquets of flowers left at the gates of government houses around the country.
