Good Morning Australia!! - Is a Republic in the making just before Australia Day? - America's most populated region digs out from under historic snowfalls - With Europe unsure and unable to react to a million refugees and migrants, a UN official is suggesting the continent take more - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Most of Australia's premiers and chief ministers have signed a declaration reading, "We, the undersigned premiers and chief ministers of Australia, believe that Australians should have an Australian as our head of state."  Only WA's Colin Barnett did not sign the letter calling the end of Queen Elizabeth II as ruler of the land.  "Never before have the stars of the Southern Cross been so aligned in pointing to the dawn of a new republican age for Australia," said Peter Fitzsimmons of The Australian Republican Movement. 

America's East Coast is digging out from an historic snowfall:  The accumulation in New York City was the second-highest since record keeping began in 1869 at 26.8 inches (68 Centimeters) - just a tenth of an inch from the record.  Five states saw totals of more than 30 inches of snow - New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania - and Monday will more than likely be part of a three or our day weekend for many people as normalcy is restored.  Washington, DC won't get much done on Monday, not that anyone will notice.

France's government is promising to maintain law and order in Calais, where some 35 migrants and activists from the "Jungle" tent city jumped on a ferry bound for the UK, forcing the port to close.  Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve voiced this "total determination" after local politicians blasted the government for allowing the migrant and refugee situation to spin out of control.  Truckers had been demanding increased security at the massive shipping terminal, and the head of a UK haulage association says it's "only a matter of time before our worst fears become a reality and a UK-bound truck driver is killed".

The new head of of the UN refugee agency says Europe can take even more migrants, if countries work together.  Although it's apparent that cooperation on the issue in in short supply, and the alliance seems to be fraying, Filippo Grandi said: "Europe can absorb more genuine refugees if it would be better organised among the different member-states."  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte already said, "When spring comes and the numbers quadruple, we cannot as the EU cope with the numbers any longer."  Member nations in the eastern part of the union increasingly view the migration crisis as a German problem, since that's apparently where they want to go.  More than a million refugees and migrants flooded into Europe least year to escape war and want in the Mideast, South Asia, and Afric.

Thousands of protesters and counter protesters filled the streets of Moldova's capital Chisinau, threatening to bring down the former Soviet republic's third government in a year.  Prime Minister Pavel Filip wants closer ties to the European Union.  But the opposition has pro-EU and pro-Moscow factions, united in disdain for Mr. Filip's ties to a businessman surrounded by corruption allegations.  Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries, and US$4 Billion "disappeared" from its banking system last year.

A veteran African National Congress (ANC) activist and friend of the late Nelson Mandela says his party is riddled with corrupt leaders who need to be cleared out.  Denis Goldberg accused local and national ANC leaders of being solely interested in their own personal enrichment, at the expense of the country and the freedom of the people.  "The members of the ANC need to renew the leadership from top to bottom,"Mr. Goldberg told the BBC, although he wouldn't "name names".  Goldberg was the only white person convicted alongside Mandela and eight others in their 1964 trial for their resistance to the racist apartheid regime.  He served 22 years in prison.