Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is currently 8th in-line for Australias head of state and is under investigation for suspected misconduct in public office in relation to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/federal-politics-albanese-taylor-rail-live-blog/106377802#live-blog-post-263358
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Seriously, who is defending AMW… wait I bet it’s Taylor and the LNONP.
Albo is a master at picking his battles.
This will ruffle some feathers but it’s a pretty decent hill to die on
Oh who is defending this? Every member of the commonweath has to approve this, for it to happen.
How about we just remove them all
i know its a good thing but also feels a pointless thing. maybe thats the point, just remove it from discussions.
news talks about how it needs to go parliament, but how much work could it be for someone who drafts legislation all the time to write htis and pass with, you’d assume, no push back?
Bit of a misleading headline/premise.
Albo isn’t calling for Andrew to be removed, he is merely stating that if the decision was made by the UK Government, the Australian Government would not object.
He also re-iterates that this investigation must take its course and that it be a fair and proper.
I see no issue in the PMs of the Commonwealth Realms making public statements supporting each other, and stating that they will act in unison during times of crisis and difficult decisions.
Why on earth is our PM “defending” an anti pedophile stance and who is he “defending” it from? Anyone dissenting is a pedophile or pedophile enabler.
Yawn
Seems amazing to me that first he was held back from royal duties, then he was officially stripped of his royal titles, then he was evicted, but he’s still in the line of succession? Bruh
This is really making me realize how stupid the Commonwealth and the monarchy is. Only the UK can initiate change on the monarchical succession (even though monarchy advocates proclaim that the monarchy is just as Australian as it is British) but in order for the change to be successful all 14 members of the Commonwealth need to agree, it has to be unanimous. Furthermore in order for Australia to agree it needs consent from all the states and territories, implying it’s the same for the other federal countries in the Commonwealth. So any territory in Australia or Canada or any other Commonwealth country could block this even if the vast majority of the Commonwealth supports it.
Australia really needs to mature and shed the monarchy.
why does the PM need to defend himself on this??
Under a lesser PM the Rolf Harris show would still be on TV. We applaud your bravery sir.
Defending against whom? They need to be put on a register.
If they remove him they also have to remove his line which his children & grandchildren.
To strip Andrew from the line of succession, they need all 14 (remaining) commonwealth countries to formally put in bid to remove him.
Andrew is accused of sharing information that is basically state secrets, 200 years ago this would have been *treason*. And is also heavily implicated in activities that are at best sexual slavery and at worst pedophilia. Even if he is not convicted there is serious concerns over his decision making ability / at no point is he ever going to be fit to rule – removing him from thr line of succession is a no-brainer
The royals want to pretend he’s not one of them. They were most certainly well aware (at the very least) of all these goings on as they happened, they deserve the disrepute. Remember Charles was close friends with Jimmy Saville ffs.
Who on Earth is disagreeing with this? Andrew should rot, forgotten in a jail cell
Andrew is, at best, a grub. At worst, a pedophile and rapist. Clearly he should be removed from the line of succession for those reasons.
However, it is extremely unlikely that he would become King. It would require William & his kids, plus Harry and his kids to all die and that would be highly unprecedented.
To change the line of succession requires all States to agree and to request the Commonwealth to legislate. Albanese can’t act alone.
And all 14 Realms must also agree.
So there’s a lot of faffing around for something that’s ultimately symbolic since Andrew would never be King anyway.
He should not have to defend this at all … a possible criminal being our potential unelected head of state should not be even on the table.
Good… now removed the 7 before him!
anyone else finding the whole “removing Andrew from succession” thing a little performative.
There’s close to zero chance of him ever being monarch anyway. Don’t the politicians have better things to spend their time on, like abolishing the monarchy altogether? Or maybe introducing a law automatically striping succession rights from anyone convicted of a crime (fingers crossed).
Referdum vote in 2032 – Medal tally has Aus ahead of Great Britain in Brisbane. Do it for the country you cunts!
Im so sick of journalists and their bs headlines.
Albo is not on the defence here, it’s an easy hill to conquer and nobody with more than a gram of brain matter see’s an issue with doing this.
Headlines should only ever be x + y. x being who and y being action.
“PM accepts bid for change in line of succession”
The PM adds he’ll also write to other realm countries such as Canada and New Zealand today.
>”Australia likes being first and we make sure that everyone knows what our position is.”
That’s amazing Albo – can we also be the first to put sanctions on these pedophiles & their businesses?? i.e. Stop Trump tower on the Gold Coast?
Our US king is a pedo too
Even monarchists will support this. Win win for Albo. King Charles is probably going to do it anyway.
Nice chess move and all, but this is just another example of career politicians playing the game and not investing their time and energy into serious actions that benefit the nation.
Can we refocus on the foreign interests that are infiltrating and destroying Australia? And all of them, not just the ones that align with narratives or agendas?
People need to remember that andrew is now pretty much out of ever being king. As Charles has William. William has children. Then if they all died it would be harry. Next in line.
Thanks for the distraction albo.
Get on with real actual essential issues housing cost of living immigration fixing infrastructure etc