Boomerang Kate will do a Di Down Under

WITH plans afoot for Wills and Kate to visit Australia next year, canny Oz PM Anthony Albanese has ruled out a referendum on ditching the monarchy during his first term. Maybe he’s had a word with Bob Hawke, who was PM when republican sentiments were surging Down Under — until Charles and Diana’s sensational tour in 1983. As Hawke said, it set the republican case back decades. The Kate and Wills effect will do exactly the same.