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    22/01/09 at 09:21 PMReply with quote#1

It's amazing to me that there are still countries that accept and respect hereditary titles.

One of the funniest and disappointing moments in my life was when Australia held a referendum to decide whether we should retain our foreign head of state or have our own head of state instead.

The referendum decided in favor of keeping the English Queen as our head of state even though there are about seven monarchists in the whole country.  How did this happen?

There were three main reasons:

The prime minister at the time was John Howard, a committed monarchist.  He decided to take the opportunity to hedge his bets in case he lost the Queen.  So he wrote a preamble to the constitution to be voted on at the same time to try and cement his place in history as one of the writers of this very important document.  It was a separate issue to vote on but it clouded and confused the whole voting process.  You have to remember that Aussies are not highly educated on political issues, it's not sport so who gives a toss.  They WERE savvy enough to see this preamble for what it was though, a cheap political stunt.  Plus the wording of the preamble was nonsense as well.  It crapped on about what it meant to be an Australian by explaining we are unique because we have the same basic core values as every other human on earth.  Ridiculous, it's no wonder it was rejected.

The second problem was the republican convention that was held before the referendum.  A large room full of wankers arguing about what kind of republic should be taken to the referendum to be voted on.  "The government should appoint the head of state"..."no way, the people must vote for the head of state"..."no we can't have that, Kylie Minogue might get the job"... on and on and on.  It never occurred to any of these idiots that all we needed to do was phone the Queen and tell her she's fired, then inform the current Governor General that they were now the actual head of state instead of being the de-facto head of state representing the Queen.  Nothing else needed to change!  This whole debacle fractured the republican movement into factions that couldn't stand each other and who wouldn't vote for each other's ideas.  Divided and conquered.

The third problem was the English Queen herself.  Let's face it, as heads of state go, she's very good.  We all like and respect her; it's just that most of us don't respect her hereditary title.  And we want an Australian as our head of state not an Englishwoman.

So in the end most republicans decided that the whole thing was a mess and the republic should be rejected until a proper model was proposed and the English Queen died.



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