You have right !! It is shameful!! We fight to finish with this bad story.
Antonis Symeonakis
Adelaide

Anyone who is still Constiutional Monarchy should hold on to it in order to drive the commies mad.

You call President George W Bush good !

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"One must never forget that monetary union, which the two of us were the first to propose more than a decade ago is ultimately a political project. It aims to give a new impulse to the historic movement towards union of the European states. Monetary union is a federative project that needs to be accompanied and followed by other steps." — Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt

Wouldn't put it that strongly however the former PM John Howard certainly ensured that the pannel which determined the model would produce something all Republicans would agree to but few actually liked.

I'm a Monarchist for several reasons but to save a long talk I may as well just say that the Monarchy is our one certainty in the ever-changing Australian political landscape. Wouldn't mind an Australian Monarchy but how would it be established?
What I wouldn't like is a Head of State who is replaced every few years.

I don't want the american model either, i'd prefer just to scrap the Monarchy but keep the Westminster Parliamentary system.

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Here here!!

As a Brit please Australia start the movement to get rid of these leeches.

I want to die a Citizen, not a Subject!

To the comments native Aussies, more died in police cell in Australia, than Black people died in police cells in South Africa through aparthied.

That is not an issue. The point is weather Australia should remain British colony or not.
G. Whitlam who believed that Multicultural politics in the country is only way for Australia to develop its unique cultural and national identity and become independent nation from colonial master Brittan.
Unlike America, Australia did not have liberation war with Brittan and to these days remains a British British monarch as a head of state.
Unfortunately , in seventies Mr. G. Whitlam as a prime minister, was sect by British monarch for not serving enough British interest in his country Australia.

A citizen of the EU ....President Blair *shudders* a price worth paying ?

God Save the Queen !

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"One must never forget that monetary union, which the two of us were the first to propose more than a decade ago is ultimately a political project. It aims to give a new impulse to the historic movement towards union of the European states. Monetary union is a federative project that needs to be accompanied and followed by other steps." — Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt

Hey, all i'm saying is that i don't want our head of state (as figureheaded as he/ she may be) purely a representative of the Queen. Our Attorney General should be answerable to the people.

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