tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post861032967390974890..comments2023-11-03T07:23:30.909-05:00Comments on The Monarchist 2.0: Australian Referendum in 2010?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-15120702215459873482007-10-02T21:32:00.000-05:002007-10-02T21:32:00.000-05:00All I can tell you, from here in Australia, is tha...All I can tell you, from here in Australia, is that Loyal Austrlains are going to fight like mad to keep the Crown!<BR/><BR/>Australians for Constitutional have a very good team and we should go well - if given a fair debate.<BR/><BR/>David ByersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-69956691069376633832007-09-27T11:29:00.000-05:002007-09-27T11:29:00.000-05:00Getting even might be fun...something like the 170...Getting even might be fun...something like the 1705 Alien Act?<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though, the most enjoyable irony might be if William announced his betrothal to some flower of Aussie womanhood the day after the referendum results come in...<BR/><BR/>CatoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-11853652401787005392007-09-26T17:29:00.000-05:002007-09-26T17:29:00.000-05:00Tough to say, Cato. But if I was Prince William, I...Tough to say, Cato. But if I was Prince William, I would be looking to get even after they kicked sand in his face and told him to get lost. Part of the problem is, I'm not sure if the Royals are willing to take one for the team anymore.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-80843877361844037652007-09-26T16:20:00.000-05:002007-09-26T16:20:00.000-05:00Some of the comments under the Telegraph article a...Some of the comments under the Telegraph article are not so much excellent as indicative of the problem. Here's a choice favourite: "Basically please be comfortable staying in the GB and never! ever come to Australia." Very nice.<BR/><BR/>I think that we should not comfort ourselves with a lot of twaddle about how much Aussies hate politicians etc etc. Australia is very likely to leave the family - the first Commonwealth country of primarily British ancestry to do so in more than 200 years...and I think that we underestimate how much the tolerance of this ancient tie between CANZUK is (perhaps unconsciously) predicated on the fact that each of the other countries has kept it. In other words, I doubt that the image of Australians waking up in 2010 in the New Larrikin Republic is going to hurt the Republican movements in Canada and NZ (nor even in Britain, although in the latter we're a good century away from abolition); whereas an undecided or even indifferent Canadian, for example, must surely be more likely to accept the status quo if he or she opens a newspaper to see headlines about Aus or NZ rejecting a republican future. It stands to reason. <BR/><BR/>This is why I very much fear that the future for the kinds of people who enjoy this blog is really not so rosy as it might be.<BR/><BR/>CatoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-51008556208795702132007-09-26T15:16:00.000-05:002007-09-26T15:16:00.000-05:00As one commenter put it:Apart from the inconvenien...As one commenter put it:<BR/><BR/>Apart from the inconvenient facts that - <BR/><BR/>- A referendum about a republic is not currently planned for 2010, <BR/>- 2010 will be an election year, <BR/>- Alston's speech was not about a referendum or a republic, <BR/>- the Liberals do not, in general, favour a republic, nor do they wish to distance themselves from the UK or the USA, <BR/>- Australia does not regard a UK relationship as inextricably tied to a USA relationship, or vice versa, <BR/>- the republic debate is not an issue in the coming election, <BR/><BR/>this article is reasonably accurate.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.com