Parko should first explain why he's doing the talking

Australia being a monarchy is no more anomalous than Sir Michael Parkinson giving the Australia Day speech:

The 75-year-old became the first foreigner to deliver the annual Australia Day speech in its 14-year history in Sydney yesterday.

Following his address in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he told reporters: 'Why should Australia not be a republic? It's its own country, its own man. I find it incomprehensible that it's not that now.'

If it's incomprehensible to Parkinson, maybe he doesn't understand the country he's lecturing.

The answer? It's a bit like getting a Brit to give this address: if it works, we're fine with it.