As far as I can tell the Queen's only purpose is to sometimes meddle in Commonwealth governments (Canada, 2008, Australia, 1975, UK, now) and usually trigger a constitutional crisis
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If the queen didn't exist, all of these would have still happened. The queen always follows the advice of the PM, going against the wishes of the government would be its own constitutional crisis.
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Right, not saying they're her fault, just that whenever she's actually involved in the process of governing something has gone wrong. The causality is probably reversed: the only situations that call for her involvement are hairy ones anyway.
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(I am being a bit flippant, but growing up in not one but two former colonies has given me a healthy resentment of the monarchy)
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If there weren't an Australian Governor General, then the Australian one wouldn't have. There was no English parliamentary action preceding the dismissal.
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