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With all due respect the notion that the Queen of the United Kingdom somehow rules over the ADF is nonsense. The Australian constitution places the Governor General in charge of the ADF [https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...], who by convention defers their powers to the Minister for Defence.

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She's also the Queen of Australia, and in that capacity she can declare secret anything she wants to declare.

The Australian Parliament needs permission from the Governor General to investigate the ADF - it doesn't have that oversight by default.

Yes, the governer general is the "commander in chief", and the governer general is the queen's power proxy, so technically Lizzy is the head of the armed forces, despite polite conventions.

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