There are reports coming out this morning here in Oz that the King and Queen will visit Australia and NZ next year:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-Queen-Camilla-Set-Australia-visit-2024.html
This article is mentioned the Sydney Morning Herald as its source but I don't pay for that so I don't have a link.
Just a few notes about the reasons:
Bicentenary of the NSW Upper House ... in 1824 the British Parliament and George IV gave the Governor of NSW the right to appoint an advisory board called the Council to help him run the colony due to how much it had grown. In the 1850s an elected Legislative Assembly was then permitted and the Council became the Upper House of the NSW parliament and called the Legislative Council. It was the last legislative chamber in Australia to actually become an elected body (I remember voting in the referendum to make it an elected house which it should be of course but sometimes with some of those elected I think it would be better if it was still appointed ... but only when I hear one of the more fringe members speak and for a few seconds as I support democracy).
The other reasons being mentioned are horse races. The AJC that runs Royal Randwick (so named due to the late Queen's visit there in 1954 - that was where my parents went to see her on that visit) has named one of the major races in the Spring Carnival after the King. Last year at Ascot one of the people in the carriage procession one day was the man who runs racing in NSW and the man behind keeping horse racing going during the covid lockdowns ... to the delight of the late Queen who watched the races from Australia while in the UK. The second race mentioned in the Melbourne Cup, which they attended in 2012 when Camilla presented the Cup. That is Australia's biggest race and is described as 'the race that stops the nation' and it always held on the first Tuesday in November (in peace time at least).