View Poll Results: Should Australia be a Republic?
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Thread: Should Australia be a Republic?
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5th June 2006, 07:42 PM #16Originally Posted by Ashore
There aren't many things that make my blood boil, but those *$%@!&^%! mongrels certainly do...
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5th June 2006, 07:49 PM #17Registered
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Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon
Must have been something you ate.
Al
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5th June 2006, 07:53 PM #18
It's pretty easy to say you don't care and don't fix it if it aint broke, but imagine the Queen made a decision today that affected your lives...
Sounds dumb but imagine she decided to whack a 100% tax on tools overnight... She can't currently do this of course, but let's just imagine it for the sake of an example that's close to home.
You'd be asking yourself, 'Why is this woman doing this? What right does this pommy have to dictate things in my life?'
Now the Queen's got 'er head screwed on but what about Charles? Are you sure he wouldn't throw his two bob in on every environmental issue in Oz? Is William going to understand Australia and always have it's best interests at heart? Even when they might conflict with those of the UK?
The relationship between Australia and the 'Colony Mother' is a very complex one which I don't pretend to begin to understand. It has repercussions that affect many things including finance, international relations and military operations. The latter of which should never be underestimated. Indonessia is a hop skip and a jump from Australia, has one of the largest land armies on the planet, and has a very large uneducated Muslim following. In the hands of fanatics, these mostly peaceful people could become quite a problem. England went to war to protect the Falklands, nothing more than a sparrow's crap a good long swim from the Antartic! You think these over-populated 3rd world countries at our doorstep won't be thinking about that when they don't have any more room?
I don't know how I feel about this issue because I don't have all the facts. I do however, know that answers such as 'don't care' should only pop up if, after hearing both sides, the decision is a mute point.
Is it?
Damien
Perhaps the poll should have a 3rd option: Don't have an opinion - as long as it doesn't affect my workshop.Is it wrong to be in love with a sawbench?
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5th June 2006, 07:54 PM #19
Actually I reckon if you want to know what the PEOPLE think, rather than a bunch of cynical old woodbeaters, you could do worse than look to the result of the last referendum.
Give people an open forum like this one of course they are going to be brave and want change, but give them a REAL referendum where change might actually happen, and it's a different story!
Cheers,
P
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5th June 2006, 08:02 PM #20
I think we should make Al our head of state. He'd make a pretty good Queen.
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5th June 2006, 08:03 PM #21Registered
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Read this.
Al
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5th June 2006, 08:07 PM #22Registered
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Originally Posted by Grunt
It would be the goat tied to a tyre, and eating a blackberry bush.
Al
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5th June 2006, 08:11 PM #23Originally Posted by bitingmidge
First, our politicians cannot have a rational debate on the most important of issues and need to try and manoeuvre themselves for an advantage.
Next, the Australian population is largely apathetic on the issue and had decided to vote against change very early on in the process.
Australians, in general, do not want to be involved in the political system because of the negative perceptions that surround it. Unfortunately this is one of those self defeating prophesies and not necessarily based on facts. There are some very hard working and capable pollies who are intermixed with some very corrupt ones.
We, as a nation, are collectively stupid and uninformed enough to vote them back in time and again. Until we lift our own involvement and understanding to the most basic of levels we will continue to stumble along. I had once thought perhaps our political apathy may have descended from being convicts, but this has not been the case elsewhere in the world with similar heritage to our own.
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5th June 2006, 08:14 PM #24Originally Posted by ozwinner
Good idea. We could still eat the animals on our coat of arms.
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5th June 2006, 08:20 PM #25Chief Muck-a-Rounder
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Originally Posted by Shedhand
Good point, I do care now!!
Cheers.
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5th June 2006, 08:22 PM #26Originally Posted by ozwinner
teach the goat to eat roses and not blackberries,
blackberries are yum but roses are ..CENSORED...
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5th June 2006, 08:51 PM #27
Selamat malam.
One day Australia is sure to become a republic. It will, hopefully, not be the same as, say, the USA, or, Singapore.
- Australians are mostly carefree and acceptive to new ideas so long at we are NOT FORCED to adopt them. Our migrants, over time, mellow and become believers that easy acceptance is better than intimidation;
- We would never accept the benevolent but harsh government as in Singapore;
- We would not accept the more religious government of Malaysia.
- We would never accept the military influence of government that exists in many other countries; and
- Australia is a country of states which formed a federation without war for separation or independence.
Out of the capital cities of Australian states and territories our people move , and live at a leisurely pace - somewhat like the gentle pace of life in Malaysian kampongs (if they still exist).
We don't, in a general way, identify with the Royal Family. Some like them, some don't and generally we politely direspect politicians.
When the Austraian constitution is changed and a democratic republic is formed our head of state is likely to be addressed as Kanga. I suspect that is dificult for you you appreciate - you would have to BE AUSTRALIAN to understand that it can be a form of respect offered to any one in such a high statiion.
I hope ypu do well in your studies,
soth.
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5th June 2006, 08:53 PM #28Originally Posted by damienhazoChris
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Life isn't always fair
....................but it's better than the alternative.
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5th June 2006, 09:19 PM #29Originally Posted by Buzzer
CheersIf you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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5th June 2006, 09:22 PM #30Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon
Cheers (and maintain the rage)If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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