Австралиядағы лауазымдық кепілдік және республикалық реформалар

the Australian meaning of the term
Security of tenure is a term with multiple meanings according to jurisdiction. In Australia, it is used in political science to describe a constitutional or legal guarantee that a political office holder cannot be removed from office except in exceptional and specified circumstances. Without (political) security of tenure, an office holder may find his or her ability to carry out their powers, functions and duties restricted by the fear that whoever disapproves of any of their decisions may be able to easily remove them from office in revenge. Security of tenure offers protection, by ensuring that an office holder cannot be victimised for exercising their powers, functions and duties. It enables the democratic or constitutional methodology through which an office holder comes to office not to be overturned except in the strictest and most extreme cases.

This design flaw in the Australian system was highlighted by international experts who briefed the Republic Advisory Committee in 1993 on the lessons to be learnt in moving from a constitutional monarchy to a republic. However, later that decade, Australia's constitutional convention produced a proposed model of Australian president that continued to lack security of tenure. During the 1999 referendum on becoming a republic, some critics asserted that the failure to provide security of tenure meant that the proposed presidency was fatally flawed from conception, with the officeholder unable to intervene except through a sudden, unannounced action such as that performed by Kerr in November 1975. For that reason, support of the monarchy and other reasons, Australia voted to retain its constitutional monarchy in the referendum.