Sydney Morning Herald: MEMO REST OF PLANET: We wanted to do our bit to help reduce climate change, but couldn’t agree on what. Sorry. Remember the referendum on a republic in 1999? Although polling shows a clear majority of Australians want a republic, the referendum was so easily defeated as to push the issue off the agenda for a decade and counting. Why? Because the republicans, led by Malcolm Turnbull, couldn’t agree on how a president should be elected. So the monarchists, led by …