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____ Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 33410 Australia Gender:	The Republic Of Australia Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:03pm So Canada is to become a Republic, after the current Queen dies. So should Australia Time to start planning the model.
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Deborahmac09 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1619	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #1 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:06pm Didn't you get stung enough on yahoo greens Roll on King William
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Reply #2 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:30pm

Stung !!!

are you talking about honey bees dying out because of inaction on climate change ... causing mass starvation due to the collapse of world crops.

Royal Queens are a dying breed.

meanwhile time to discuss the preferred model we require for our Republic.

Should we the people elect a President ... or should the government of the day?

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locutius Gold Member Offline You can't fight in here! It's the War Room Posts: 1817 Queensland Gender:	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #3 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:33pm Happy to vote for Republic Australia...but not just for the sake of it. Haven't seen a model that is transparently better than the system we currently have or a model that hasn't been hijacked by the politicians left or right. Until then, they can leave our current system alone.
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locutius Gold Member Offline You can't fight in here! It's the War Room Posts: 1817 Queensland Gender:	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #4 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:34pm The People!
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Reply #5 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:50pm

locutius wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:33pm:

Happy to vote for Republic Australia...but not just for the sake of it. Haven't seen a model that is transparently better than the system we currently have or a model that hasn't been hijacked by the politicians left or right.

Until then, they can leave our current system alone.

I am with locutius on that.
Can not see we can afford it either.

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Reply #6 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 5:23pm

I can't find much of an incentive for voting in favour of a republic. I think it's going to take something like WorkChoices, AWAs and media hype/bias like that surrounding Kevin Rudd to make many of us do it.

The current system still works. It may look stupid, sound stupid and feel stupid, but let's let it stay stupid because the replacement might be too good to be true.

Let's vote no again!!! (when the time comes)

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Reply #7 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:14pm

Mnemonic wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 5:23pm:

I can't find much of an incentive for voting in favour of a republic. I think it's going to take something like WorkChoices, AWAs and media hype/bias like that surrounding Kevin Rudd to make many of us do it.

The current system still works. It may look stupid, sound stupid and feel stupid, but let's let it stay stupid because the replacement might be too good to be true.

Let's vote no again!!! (when the time comes)

Yeah..it's a case of 'if it's NOT broke, why FIX it'???

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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #8 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:16pm Deborahmac09 wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:06pm: Didn't you get stung enough on yahoo greens Roll on King William That'd be the 'best' result....William rather than Charles...
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Reply #9 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:23pm

locutius wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 12:33pm:

Happy to vote for Republic Australia...but not just for the sake of it. Haven't seen a model that is transparently better than the system we currently have or a model that hasn't been hijacked by the politicians left or right.

Until then, they can leave our current system alone.

Agree.

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"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?"-Jack Kerouac.

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aikmann4 Gold Member Offline Posts: 2093 canberra	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #10 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:37pm Canada sucks.
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freediver Gold Member Online www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47348 At my desk.	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #11 - Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:49pm I also think it would be nice to become a repulbic, but am yet to see a better model put forward. Until then, no point really. Surely climate change etc are much bigger issues?
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Deborahmac09 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1619	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #12 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:27am aikmann4 wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 6:37pm: Canada sucks. So the second largest country in the world sucks
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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #13 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:49am One reason for establishing an Australian republic would be to shed the cultural infantilism that drives the obsession with a foreign monarchy.
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Deborahmac09 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1619	Re: The Republic Of Australia Reply #14 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:54am NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:49am: One reason for establishing an Australian republic would be to shed the cultural infantilism that drives the obsession with a foreign monarchy. Only when there is a decent model. Until then leave it the way it is.
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