Good stuff: Calls for social media campaign to end celebrity royal worship

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher slammed celebrity royal worship and called for the republican movement to be more "newsworthy" through a new social media campaign in a Friday speech.

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The speech, to the Republican movement's national body in Canberra, characterised support for the royals as a celebrity cult and said there was a "tendency for many Australians to see a republic as a mere fashion choice."

Ms Gallagher met with and hosted the royals in Canberra in April and acknowledged the popular enthusiasm for royals when they came to town.

But she said the the royal visit had placed a "polite embargo" on the republican movement which now needed to be "newsworthy and willing to contest the space which the royal establishment has so successfully made its own."

She said she hoped social media would revitalise the topic. “While the support of the mass media is crucial to the success of any potential republican campaign, the power of social media cannot be ignored," Ms Gallagher said.

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Good stuff: Calls for social media campaign to end celebrity royal worship

Good stuff: Calls for social media campaign to end celebrity royal worship

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