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The aim was to communicate non-politicized information about what a republic actually is and what constitutional changes would have to be made to make a republic a reality for Australia. It was important to capture the character of the then current debate and to explain the polarization of opinion.
We created a computer exhibit in the form of an opinion poll with nine questions, and the facility to collect users´ opinions and to compare the current user with all those who went before. This obvious structure was however only the means to capture visitors´ interest and to address them personally. As the user moves through the questions the consequences of earlier choices become clear, and the questions become more difficult to answer.
At each step along the way context sensitive information in bite-sized packages inform about the question and the consequences of the possible answers. At any stage users can diverge from the main path of the exhibit to seek related information such as definitions of terms or how the various political parties would respond to the current question.
At the end of the program visitors are presented with an analysis of their particular form of republic; how their choices compare with previous users and which other countries in the world have similar systems.
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