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(CNN) -- Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday she believes Australia should become a republic after Queen Elizabeth II dies.
Gillard said the country has a "deep affection" for Queen Elizabeth, but that she favors moving Australia toward a republic.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/australia.monarchy/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 17, 2010 Updated 0953 GMT
nikimcbee
08-17-10, 12:30 PM
Can Britain afford to loose its prison colony?
Can Britain afford to loose its prison colony? :haha:
Jimbuna
08-17-10, 03:04 PM
Can Britain afford to loose its prison colony?
LMAO :rotfl2:
nikimcbee
08-17-10, 04:29 PM
The question is, will Prince (King):har: Charles allow the Aussies to bolt? Will he send General Cornwallis in?
Will the Aussies have a "Foster's beer party?":woot: No, not that kind of party, dump the beer into Sydney Bay.
Where will the "pro-Pommies" go? Kiwiland? it's a long swim to Canada.
What sort on new taxes will the British put on those "Rascally Rebels?"
2010 Beer tax act
2011 Cricket league tax
2012 the correct pronuncation of "Good-day" tax
2010 Tan shorts and jungle hat tax
Will France save your guy's asses like the last British split off group?:shucks::hmmm:
Betonov
08-17-10, 04:33 PM
aussies dont know how good they have it, their head of state is some old woman on the other hemisphere. We in the republics have to live with (and feed) the idiot we elected in the same country.
Kind a reminds me, do Autralians pay some sort of tax to support the royal fammily in London??
darius359au
08-17-10, 05:31 PM
Only reason Gillards come up with this is she's in trouble in the poll leading to this saturdays election - no ones even mentioned the republic thing at all during the last month yet she pulls it out 4 days before the election in a desperate to get re-elected!
Actually she wasn't elected ,she knifed the ex PM when he dipped in the opinion polls and her union masters decide they liked the gravy train to much and wanted to stay in power to keep feeding at the trough:x
Only reason Gillards come up with this is she's in trouble in the poll leading to this saturdays election - no ones even mentioned the republic thing at all during the last month yet she pulls it out 4 days before the election in a desperate to get re-elected!
Actually she wasn't elected ,she knifed the ex PM when he dipped in the opinion polls and her union masters decide they liked the gravy train to much and wanted to stay in power to keep feeding at the trough:x for that purpose is quite different, :hmm2:
Dullard is hoping we will look the other way whilst she and her band of burglars steal another term in office which they have not earned with the mess they'd made over the last 3 years.
The republic issue has been to referendum here and got voted down a few years back. Personally I could care less given the impact HMQE has on our country.
All that really matters is that we can keep beating the poms at cricket, rugby, rugby league, darts, etc. etc. etc and that the price of beer doesn't go up too much.:O:
The Third Man
08-17-10, 09:23 PM
Ya see that is how pitiful my knowledge is. I thought that OZ was a republic. I was fooled by there being a PM I guess.
nikimcbee
08-18-10, 12:34 AM
The first battle:
The British march onto the field
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/WrestPark/SmilingRedcoats.jpg
Then the Aussies
http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2006_09_steveirwin.jpg
runaway runaway
http://www.compliancebuilding.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/redcoats.jpg
nikimcbee
08-18-10, 12:50 AM
Then, 5 months later, the British return with their own secret weapon....
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.Their own Ozzy!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P6Kg5C9CX2A/SH9Mfh3jBlI/AAAAAAAAA1w/cXra8jWcjEM/s400/ozzy%26kermit.jpg
Fire!
http://art.allayers.com/images/large/ozzy_osbourne.jpg
Ozzy vs Aussie! Fight!
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/images/crocodile-dundee-3-1.jpg
http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/ozzy-osbourne.jpg
http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/741.jpg
http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sq-scream_mic_nails_gets_me-epc.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_en3tE7aKwk8/Skk6tckHg4I/AAAAAAAAAko/_MzbIU_28Lc/s400/crocodile+hunter+winner.jpg
The Kiwis move in and take over!
http://planetill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hobbit-group.jpg
darius359au
08-18-10, 01:35 AM
Ozzy would do a better job of running this country than what Gillard and Krudd before her did - He's also more understandable than Krudd when Krudd started speaking in Kruddish ,Hell even Yogi Berra is the most eloquent and understandable speaker next to Krudd:o
The Kiwis move in and take over!
http://planetill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hobbit-group.jpgHey none of them are kiwis, you have got the makings of a good joke though. A German, American, Englishman and a Scotsman walked into a bar....
papa_smurf
08-18-10, 05:16 AM
Im sure we wont miss you once you become a republic, means more medals for us at the commonwealth games:D
http://imgur.com/BjhYA.jpg
PM says Australia should become republicCouldn't give a crap what that hag says!:stare:
Couldn't give a crap what that hag says!:stare: if she is not re-elected :hmmm:
krashkart
08-18-10, 10:28 AM
Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here. :DL
Or do we? :hmmm:
Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here. :DL
Or do we? :hmmm: party time,Free drinks for everyone in the population :yep:
Im sure we wont miss you once you become a republic, means more medals for us at the commonwealth games:D
Well I'll be surprised if any medals are awarded in Delhi in a few weeks. They are far from ready from what I've heard. Mind you the Canucks will take all the medals if we don't.:O:
Couldn't give a crap what that hag says!:stare:
You and me both mate.
Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here. :DL
Or do we? :hmmm:Well when you have a choice between a Bloodnut and a Wingnut I'm not sure which to choose:
http://rukusan.com/writings/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Julia-Gillard_0.jpg
http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uploads/0wingnut.jpg
Well I'll be surprised if any medals are awarded in Delhi in a few weeks. They are far from ready from what I've heard. Mind you the Canucks will take all the medals if we don't.:O:
You and me both mate.
Well when you have a choice between a Bloodnut and a Wingnut I'm not sure which to choose:
http://rukusan.com/writings/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Julia-Gillard_0.jpg
http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uploads/0wingnut.jpg measurements that you have done,he advantages he has as she has not, except that he is a man,Currently in my eyes she looks better :yep:
Platapus
08-19-10, 08:21 AM
I don't know, I sometimes get the impression that Ozzy may have occasionally experimented with drugs. Can't put my finger on it though. Just an impression.
:D
Skybird
08-19-10, 08:38 AM
For long time, the Australian Brits tried to be more British than the Brits themselves. That was to be explained by the distance to their home in England, and led to some absurd attempts to make australia look like Britian at home, including the radical extinction of local flora, which simply looks too exotic (I read they payed - and I think they still do - state money for property owners to burn down areas with local flora, it even is mandatory for farmers, they could loose their rights to live on the land and use it for farming and agruclute if they do not comply). This has dramatic consequences for the abailability of natural sweet water ressoruces, becasue it adds to the prpoblem that already are coming due to the heat and the geological structure of the ground, the big porblem is salienation. In another attempt to import dear old Brittany to australia, rabbits and foxes got imported to Australia, so that hunters may have somethign to hunt. The foriegn species exploded in population numbers and kicked the ecological balance pretty much off track.
If people move to foreign places, they feel foreing and try to make this more comfortable to bear by transporting their old known habits and rites with with them, sticking to them to give themselves a feeling of "home". Often this can lead to the colonists sticking more resolut to old habits than their peope at home who meanwhile undergo changes in vogues and modes and habits and rites that do not make it into the colonies, becasue the colonies are too orthodox in their attempt to safeguarding their memory of the old home.
But I think that Austrlia after WWII has slowly started to understand that japan, China and Indonesia are much closer to it and form its neighbourhood, than Britain is. The asian neigjhbours for long time got rejected, and dealed with as trade partners of secionsd class - europe and Engöland were preferred. I think that Australians struggled for decades to overcome this handicap, and fianlly arrive in the place where they already live now since so long. and I think they indeed have understood that Enbgöand is iucz less important for them than finding their place in the community of their close neighbourhood.
seen that way, giving up to accept the British queen as head of australian state, is only logical, and Elizabeth's death is also a good opportunity that almost marks a natural watershed.
Australia formally may be a colony that became independant, but now it is time that it indeed becomes mature as well and understand that it's childhood is over and that the English mama must no longer sing the same long-since known lullabies every evening anymore. australia has certain ecological and economical problems that England and europe can and will not help it to solve, but that it can only adress in close cooperation and trade with it's Asian neighbours. How may not be too eager to enagge in closer relations if they are constantly being rejected or ignored.
It is not healthy if with yor body you are in one place, and with your mind you constantly are in a different place. For Australia I think it is time to bring both together - else the future may prove to be more than Australia can handle.
On the economic and ecologic problems I just hinted at, I refer to the chapter on Australia in Jarred Diamond's outstanding book "Collapse".
I don't know, I sometimes get the impression that Ozzy may have occasionally experimented with drugs. Can't put my finger on it though. Just an impression.
:D :hmmm:
if she is not re-elected :hmmm:Incorrect statement really, she was self elected!:-?
Don't like her one bit, at least Kevin Rudd has some morals!
She is a legend in her own mind!:haha:
Incorrect statement really, she was self elected!:-?
Don't like her one bit, at least Kevin Rudd has some morals!
She is a legend in her own mind!:haha: especially as a viewer,and morale is then, yes it sounds like a real sleeping pill :yawn:
(CNN) -- Australians go to the polls on August 21, 2010, and will choose between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition to form a new government.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/australia.election.explainer/index.html?hpt=C2
Note:August 19, 2010 Updated 0619 GMT
bookworm_020
08-19-10, 09:36 PM
measurements that you have done,he advantages he has as she has not, except that he is a man,Currently in my eyes she looks better :yep:
If you had a side on profile, your views might change!:doh:
Skybird, your looking at the republic issue from the non Australian viewpoint. We have a head of state we don't have to support, and when the Queen or her family stuff up, it's no embarrassment to us!:D
They way we're going, England will become a republic before we do!;)
If you had a side on profile, your views might change!:doh:
Skybird, your looking at the republic issue from the non Australian viewpoint. We have a head of state we don't have to support, and when the Queen or her family stuff up, it's no embarrassment to us!:D
They way we're going, England will become a republic before we do!;)
:har:
http://cdn.wn.com/ph/img/9b/e0/a3f22eca75a3163d3a886d1024a8-grande.jpg
And yes Julia your ar$e does look big in that.:O:
If you had a side on profile, your views might change!:doh:
but I need references :yep:
Jimbuna
08-20-10, 11:06 AM
Looks like your no different to folk here in the UK.
Your stuffed whichever way you vote :doh:
CNN) -- An intuitive crocodile on Australia's northern coast is taking a bite out of the country's hotly contested national election by making his pick for prime minister.
The psychic salt-water croc -- named Harry -- who correctly picked World Cup champion Spain to win this year's tournament in South Africa, has now thrown his considerable weight behind incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/australia.clairvoyant.crocodile/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 20, 2010 Updated 1359 GMT
Tchocky
08-20-10, 12:19 PM
The first battle:
The British march onto the field
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/WrestPark/SmilingRedcoats.jpg
Then the Aussies
http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2006_09_steveirwin.jpg
runaway runaway
http://www.compliancebuilding.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/redcoats.jpg
Ah, but McBee you've missed the trick! The soldier above is running away carrying Agent Spiky, a weaponised stingray on Her Majesty's Slimy Service
If you had a side on profile, your views might change!:doh:
Skybird, your looking at the republic issue from the non Australian viewpoint. We have a head of state we don't have to support, and when the Queen or her family stuff up, it's no embarrassment to us!:D
They way we're going, England will become a republic before we do!;)
Reminds me of that scene from Johnny English when he's pantsing the Archbishop of Canterbury and you see a bunch of Aussies sitting out in the sheep pens watching it on TV and laughing their asses off.
darius359au
08-20-10, 06:05 PM
CNN) -- An intuitive crocodile on Australia's northern coast is taking a bite out of the country's hotly contested national election by making his pick for prime minister.
The psychic salt-water croc -- named Harry -- who correctly picked World Cup champion Spain to win this year's tournament in South Africa, has now thrown his considerable weight behind incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/australia.clairvoyant.crocodile/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 20, 2010 Updated 1359 GMT
You know ,I wish someone had barbecued that octopus in Germany during the world cup ,now every maniac is coming up with "Psychic" animals to pick stuff - WE've got a couple of Giant Panda's here in Adelaide ,on loan from China, and the local hack rag newspaper decide to stick a picture of Abbot and Gillard in front of one of them to pick a winner of the election:doh:
bookworm_020
08-20-10, 08:24 PM
CNN) -- An intuitive crocodile on Australia's northern coast is taking a bite out of the country's hotly contested national election by making his pick for prime minister.
The psychic salt-water croc -- named Harry -- who correctly picked World Cup champion Spain to win this year's tournament in South Africa, has now thrown his considerable weight behind incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/australia.clairvoyant.crocodile/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 20, 2010 Updated 1359 GMT
Why couldn't they just throw both of them into the pen with the croc and the one that survives, wins! Make it a far more interesting election!:yeah:
Why couldn't they just throw both of them into the pen with the croc and the one that survives, wins! Make it a far more interesting election!:yeah: I think it would be a great challenge,even for me as a hunter :DL
Why couldn't they just throw both of them into the pen with the croc and the one that survives, wins! Make it a far more interesting election!:yeah:
With you on that. Would be far more interesting to watch on TV than tonights wall to wall tally room borefest.
Sydney, Australia (CNN) -- Polls closed Saturday in Australia's federal election, a hotly contested race that will decide the next leader of the country.
With more than 63 percent of the votes counted, the Labor Party of Prime Minister Julia Gillard was leading with 51 percent of the vote, while the Liberal-National coalition of Tony Abbott had 49 percent, according to results posted online by the Australian Electoral Commission.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/australia.elections/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 21, 2010 Updated 1435 GMT
bookworm_020
08-21-10, 10:18 AM
It's now a hung parliament in both houses. This is now going to drag on for weeks now.:damn::damn::damn::damn::damn:
It's now a hung parliament in both houses. This is now going to drag on for weeks now.:damn::damn::damn::damn::damn: it is clear that whoever wins, wins by the margin to avoid hearing all again and again, it can easily be tired :yawn:
So politician issues aside do a majority of Aussies actually support the idea of an Australian republic?
I personally don't care much either way but I'd say based on the last time the question was put to the people the answer may still be no. The question in my mind is whether they weren't keen on a republic or just the model of the republic that was put forward at that referendum.
Konovalov
08-21-10, 07:20 PM
So Dullards republic distraction didn't do the trick for her and the ALP. Oh my bleeding heart. :haha:
bookworm_020
08-21-10, 08:10 PM
So politician issues aside do a majority of Aussies actually support the idea of an Australian republic?
As TarJak said, most people don't really care. We don't have an attachment to the queen like we use to, but people are unsure about a republic.
I think views will change after the queen hands over the crown (most likely by her falling off her perch). King Charles III doesn't have the appeal of his mum.
I'm a neither here or there on the issue.:-?
So Dullards republic distraction didn't do the trick for her and the ALP. Oh my bleeding heart. :haha:
Did anyone other than the dumb Labor hack that told her to say it think it would be enough of a distraction?
As TarJak said, most people don't really care. We don't have an attachment to the queen like we use to, but people are unsure about a republic.
I think views will change after the queen hands over the crown (most likely by her falling off her perch). King Charles III doesn't have the appeal of his mum.
I'm a neither here or there on the issue.:-?What worries me is changes made to the constitution!:x I'd rather be in the Commonwealth than change to a possible socialist/communist republic!:stare: We should have our constitution in concrete like America!:yep:
What worries me is changes made to the constitution!:x I'd rather be in the Commonwealth than change to a possible socialist/communist republic!:stare: We should have our constitution in concrete like America!:yep: if it'll be like "U.S." :hmmm:
TLAM Strike
08-22-10, 12:58 AM
We should have our constitution in concrete like America!:yep: :haha: Seriously?
You do know its been changed 27 times (out of 33 attempts that made it to a vote in the states, votes on about 4 have yet to be finished- passage will be difficult since more states have been added since the amendments passed). around 200 new amendments are proposed each congressional term.
There is an entire branch of law dedicated to interpreting this monster.
Let me but it to you this way. Under the 2nd Amendment you have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the right to a Well Regulated Militia. All 50 states have their own conflicting gun laws. For example if you live in say Pennsylvania and go out for a walk with a gun in your hand and walk in to my state New York you will be arrested because you cannot openly carry a gun out side your home unless it is unloaded and placed in the trunk of your car.
My son got booked for having a spud gun in the car! No kidding!:-?
I love how any of the smaller groups such as the "sex party" for example, can take peoples votes and give them to either of the 2 major parties (who ever will bend over and crawl the most) regardless of the voters choice! that's not right! Basically the smaller parties will decide who will govern or not!:nope:
TLAM Strike
08-22-10, 10:20 AM
My son got booked for having a spud gun in the car! No kidding!:-?
I love how any of the smaller groups such as the "sex party" for example, can take peoples votes and give them to either of the 2 major parties (who ever will bend over and crawl the most) regardless of the voters choice! that's not right! Basically the smaller parties will decide who will govern or not!:nope: You may or may not know this but the President of the US is not elected. The voters select "electors" to cast a vote as to who will be president. They don't have to select the candidate they were selected to vote for.
Sydney, Australia (CNN) -- With no clear winner emerging from a cliff-hanger national election, Australian political leaders jostled for support from a handful of independent lawmakers Sunday.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she was speaking with independents in an effort to build a minority government. Opposition leader Tony Abbott also told reporters he had spoken with independent lawmakers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/australia.elections/index.html?hpt=T2
Note:August 22, 2010 Updated 0903 GMT
Jimbuna
08-22-10, 02:11 PM
Vendor...are you thinking of moving to Australia? :DL
Vendor...are you thinking of moving to Australia? :DL but then I shall convert into a kangaroo :roll:
Jimbuna
08-22-10, 02:19 PM
but then I shall convert into a kangaroo :roll:
That's okay, I hear they prefer sheep these days :DL
That's okay, I hear they prefer sheep these days :DL :hmmm:
Jimbuna
08-22-10, 04:25 PM
Now don't start acting like a bah'd boy :o
Now don't start acting like a bah'd boy :o UK there is a better country for sheep :timeout:
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has held initial talks with independent candidates to try to form a government after an inconclusive election.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11050525
Note: 22 August 2010 Last updated at 09:44 GMT
11:09am Prime Minister Julia Gillard back in Canberra to start negotiations with independent MPs about the future of her government.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/gillard-back-in-canberra-as-horsetrading-begins-20100823-13dyy.html
Note:Monday Aug 23, 2010
11:09am Prime Minister Julia Gillard back in Canberra to start negotiations with independent MPs about the future of her government.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/gillard-back-in-canberra-as-horsetrading-begins-20100823-13dyy.html
Note:Monday Aug 23, 2010
Already posted here: http://subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1474669&postcount=64
Already posted here: http://subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1474669&postcount=64 :yep:
No problem though maybe we should merge this thread with the Feral Election one as this seems to be covering the same ground?
No problem though maybe we should merge this thread with the Feral Election one as this seems to be covering the same ground? :DL
Jimbuna
08-23-10, 04:39 AM
No problem though maybe we should merge this thread with the Feral Election one as this seems to be covering the same ground?
Deja vu :|\\
Konovalov
08-23-10, 03:45 PM
This thread just makes for depressing reading. Did I mention that I am moving to Iceland? To die a grisly death at the base of that volcano is better than watching Dullard and Mr budgie smuggler sucking up to some independents.:yeah:
This thread just makes for depressing reading. Did I mention that I am moving to Iceland? To die a grisly death at the base of that volcano is better than watching Dullard and Mr budgie smuggler sucking up to some independents.:yeah: Iceland 've a bit less of it now more,instead of cut sheep an excellent idea :yep:
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