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As far as offensiveness, for me it's about the same whether it's one person or a hundred 'representatives'. In either case they're all completely alienated from me and what decisions would actually help us.
But on a pragmatic level, we've seen what happened to Gough Whitlam so we know this isn't merely a symbolic monarchist structure. It has a real impact.