‘This year’s Australia Day honours include two top tennis stars, an airline pilot and one of the country’s pop queens.’
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
‘This year’s Australia Day honours include two top tennis stars, an airline pilot and one of the country’s pop queens.’
Honours have become a bit of a farce. Keep the sheeple contented by honouring some of their heroes. Proper heroes be damned. It is that shallowness in my fellow plebeians which makes me shudder at the thought of becoming a republic. Imagine who we would get; Russell Brand? A Spice Girl? Sean Connery (shum mishtake shurely)? I thank God that we have a family shackled to the post of heads of state, better them than the alternative.
As I recall, Andy, the last attempt to make Oz a republic foundered on the politicians’ obstinate insistence that they would appoint a head of state.
The Aussies said “screw you” and it never went any further.
I have nothing against a republic, provided the whole deal is laid out in a perfectly transparent manner to we, the people, beforehand. And voted on.
Your royal family is about as much use as tits on a bull when it comes to protecting the liberties and rights of the people.
The last plebiscite on the topic resulted in every single corner of Australia voting overwhelmingly against becoming a Republic, with the exception of the ACT (which was the only State or Territory to vote in favour) and a certain part of inner Sydney.
And the Aussie of the Year is ……………. some idiot who worked tirelessly to promote gender equality in the fuckin military!!
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/30653591/former-army-chief-david-morrison-named-australian-of-the-year/
You will note that his speech was written by a transgender military officer, whatever that means, so perhaps he was just reading it without understanding any of it, just like the Resident of the Whitehouse does.
The country is fucked, I think it is time to go prospecting in the desert to clear my head.
See the latest post, Bill.
You’re right, the country is fucked.