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Argument: What is more important in Australia than creating a republic?
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- Senator Alan Eggleston. "The Republic: an idea that has reached its time". Address to the John Stuart Mill Society. September 22nd, 1997 - "There are more pressing issues. Perhaps, but it is also true that "man does not live by bread alone". One of the reasons why the United States is such a great country is that Americans have a very well developed sense of national identity which undoubtedly comes from the fact that they defined who they were and what they believed it meant to be an American in the Declaration of Independence and armed with that belief fought the War of Independence to establish their Nation. I believe the Republic debate will be good for Australia in the sense that it will make us as a nation take time to focus on who we are and what we stand for, and that the conversion of the Commonwealth to a Republic will strengthen our sense of 'National Identity', and I think that can only be good for Australia."