About the Commonwealth and Governance Arrangements The Commonwealth has observed more than 140 elections in nearly 40 countries since 1980. Combined gross domestic product (GDP) of Commonwealth countries is estimated at US$10.4 trillion in 2017, and predicted to reach US$13 trillion in 2020.

The Commonwealth has 53 member countries. Also among the Commonwealth’s members are some of the world’s poorest countries in terms of per capita GNI (Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone), and some of the most disadvantaged, notably Bangladesh, Kiribati and Maldives with their vulnerability to flooding as sea level rises.

List of Commonwealth of Nations countries by GDP (nominal)

Commonwealth member countries benefit from being part of a mutually supportive community of independent and sovereign states, aided by more than 80 Commonwealth organisations. The Commonwealth Secretariat, established in 1965, supports Commonwealth member countries to achieve development, democracy and peace.

Cons of Living in a Commonwealth-State

• Diversity is Hard to Achieve within a Republic.
• Factions and Diverse Interest Groups are Problematic Arise within Commonwealth.
• A Commonwealth is Costly to Maintain.
• It’s Hard for a Commonwealth to Work for a Large Group of People.

Nope. Australia the nation will pay any duties due on exports to the UK, but this revenue belongs to the Government in Parliament and not the Queen.

The Queen, which we call ‘The Crown’, owns about one sixth of the planet’s surface, and is the largest legal land owner in the World. The Queen continues to legally own all the lands of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 32 other members (around two-thirds) of the Commonwealth, and Antarctica.

Elizabeth II

The person who holds the most land in this pastoral-lease data, by far, is the Western Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, who controls 9.2m hectares, or 1.2% of Australia’s landmass, through three different corporate entities. The biggest corporate landholder is the ASX-listed Australian Agricultural Company.

The Governor-General can be removed by the Queen on the advice of the Australian Prime Minister. As Liberal Party leader Malcolm Fraser, who would play a large part in the crisis, put it, “The Queen has tenure, and she couldn’t be sacked.

Queen Elizabeth IISince 1952

Canada is the top foreign buyer of prime Australian agricultural land followed by China and the United States. Source: iStock. THIRD-GENERATION Condobolin farmer Peter Stuckey had just leased land 80km south of his broadacre cropping farm, when the farm next door hit the market.

Australia is a constitutional monarchy with The Queen as Sovereign. The Queen’s Royal style and title in Australia is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.