This is John Bachelor, observing the first year of King Charles.

I ask Gregory Copley, my colleague, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs

in Australia National, meaning he's part of the Commonwealth.

To measure King Charles's first year, Gregory emphasized energy, great energy, and also

affection for his job, his Gregory.

Well, it's been a very successful first year.

He's shown dynamism, he's shown that he's reinvigorated the monarchy as an institution.

He's shown that it has continued to evolve and has been flexible in dealing with the

new realities of life for their post-COVID world, particularly.

He has identified more with the people at a grassroots level, and the Queen was able

to do.

The Queen empathised very much and was very much loved at all levels, and particularly

at the grassroots level in the Commonwealth.

But Charles has been out there, if you like, mixing it up with the people.

I've commented that he needed to really show his face in the Commonwealth countries again,

and it's been difficult because Canada has been undergoing a degree of internal political

pull, meltdown itself, and Australia is getting ready to have a couple of referendums.

One of these referendums is one on what's called the Indigenous Voice to Parliament,

which it's proposed that a new body be created of Indigenous Australians, which would

have their own Parliament, and which would then advise the normal Parliament as well

in Canberra.

The referendum on that is critical to Prime Minister Albanese, because if that voice

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