In June 1995, in a televised speech to Parliament entitled "An Australian Republic The Way Forward", Keating outlined a minimalist plan for a republic involving a president selected by a two-thirds majority of Parliament, following nomination by the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The reserve powers and ceremonial duties of the Governor General were to be maintained. This the government proposed be put to a referendum in 1998 or 1999.Howard went on to win the 1996 Election and established the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998, which settled on a similar republican model to that proposed by Keating, which was put to the people by the Howard Government in the 1999 Australian republic referendum.