capitosinora wrote on Aug 24
th, 2016 at 8:02pm:
issuevoter wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2016 at 10:15pm:
capitosinora wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2016 at 5:56pm:
They are more or less the same negligible British colonies with British Queen as head of state.
Only difference is that Canada has own flag.
Negligible? They were the largest colonies. As for the Canadian flag, many here will not remember the campaign to change it from the original defaced red ensign. It had nothing to do with independence. It was all about appeasing the Quebecois.
Australia & Canada
are still British colonies unlike sovereign country America which liberated itself from British colonial rule long time ago.
For example Australia is still having British flag and British queen as a head of state who has constitutional right, at any time, to dismiss Australian "parliament" and "prime minister" what actually happened in 1974 to then democratically elected Prime Minister Gough Whitlam who wanted Australia to become an independent nation and republic. The official reason or excuse for his sacking, given by The Queens representative Governor General, was economic mismanagement. What an irony, during Whitlam government Australian national death was ZERO and since then rose to over $300 billion and none of the politicians has been sacked for "political mismanagement" so far.
Australian defence force is actually under direct command of the British army. The chief and commander of Australian army is British Queen that's why all regiments of Australian army have prefix Royal for example: Australian Royal navy, Royal Australian Air Force etc.
Robert Hughes one of the greatest world intellectuals who was living for more than 50 years in exile wrote, in his book "Australia beyond the fatal shore" about his country of birth: "Australia is spatially huge, culturally tiny and politically insignificant".
Today Anglo Australians are creed of genetically modified British convicts who were thrown away from British mainland by order of English pirate queen. They are basically nothing else but confused people who has lived in constant isolation without capacity to developed own cultural and national identity.
Please accept my apology for political incorrectness influenced by Mr. Donald Trump.
Sometimes, I think people should be ignored if they do not understand language, but insist on trying to use it. I will, however, make an allowance in your case. Because you want to make it clear you disapprove of Australia and Australians.
Australia is not a colony and never was. If you understand this, then say what you mean. The separate colonies became states, then joined the Commonwealth, which was not a colony. If you think Queen Elizabeth or her government dismissed Whitlam, you are wrong. He was dismissed by the GG, who is an Australian Official. Let's be clear: those who want a Republic in Australia, like to suggest merely changing the name of the GG to that of President. If that was the case, then the President would have had to dismiss Whitlam whether we like the idea or not.
Not sure where you were going with your comparison of Australia and the USA. Australian Governments have been more beholden to the USA than Britain since the 1940s and the Battle of the Coral Sea. If you intend citing the USA as a better form of government, you are in for a long debate. The Australian Commonwealth of 1901 did not function as the Colony of Massachusetts in 1776, which was taxed without representation.
Now if you suggest colonial attitudes still had adherents in the 1940s, I could pass over that. Did every Australian feel that way? I can assure you my parents and grandparents did not.
Genetically modified convicts, of a pirate queen. Would you care to share your family background with us, so we can examine their history for their foibles?
And on isolation, you need to go and take a look at the check-in lines at the International Terminals.
To write about the historical facts of government and sociology with any accuracy, and before you condemn our nation, you need to do a lot more research.