Republican plot on coinage
Written by ACM   Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Unable to persuade the Australian people to adopt some form of politicians’ republic, the latest republican plan is to remove the effigy of The Queen from our coinage first before  other national symbols go, especially our Australian Flag.

From the time that coins were minted in Australia, the effigy of our sovereign has appeared on the head or obverse of our coinage.

This republican plan from Young Labor proposes that an effigy of the Slouch Hat appear on our coins to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli. There is no reason why this could not be done.

But the republicans deviously propose a totally unnecessary condition to this. This is to remove The Queen from our coins before we adopt some politicians' republic. This of course is not in the slightest necessary if we wish to honour and commemorate Gallipoli on our coins.

Were Australia to adopt some form of politicians' republic, obviously we would as a consequence remove the Crown from the coins. But we have not. This was overwhelmingly rejected in the landslide no vote in 1999 when not one state voted in favour of the republicans' preferred model.

It is likely that this proposal so apparently loyal in linking the Slouch Hat and Gallipolli, released as we approach the election,  is at least in part designed to draw attention away from the fact that expenditure on defence as a percentage of GDP has fallen to the level that it was in the  years just before the Second World War. No doubt the proponents also wish to distract attention from the loss of control over our borders.
No doubt this proposal is intended as a preparation for the converting Australia into some form of politicians' republic. This will no doubt be followed  by the minting of republican coins with the effigy of  some  politician on our coins, thus signalling that the principle of leadership beyond politics has finally been overthrown.

Readers may be assured that Australians for Constitutional Monarchy will remain in the vanguard of the defence of our constitutional system, our flag and thus, the retention of the effigy of the sovereign on our coinage. 


http://www.norepublic.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4525&Itemid=4


Meanwhile the queen is not amused...

The Queen said she hopes the Duchess of Cambridge's baby is born soon, because she is due to go on holiday.

The comment was made to a 10-year-old schoolgirl while on a series of engagements in Cumbria.

Wiggonby Church of England Primary School pupil Fay Batey asked if the Queen wanted the royal baby to be a boy or a girl.

The Queen replied: "I don't think I mind. I would very much like it to arrive. I'm going on holiday."

According to Buckingham Palace the Queen will soon be heading off to her private Balmoral estate in Scotland, where she traditionally spends her summer holiday.

Hundreds of people had crowded into a market square in Kendal to see the Queen and the Princess Royal.

'Damson gin'

The royal party went on a brief walkabout during the 20 minute tour and received two posies from local schoolchildren.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-23341015

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Long live live the republic!...

 

In the Game of Throne (see board at top) — run backwards (anti-clockwise) by the ACM (Australian Constitutional Monarchists) — a republic is straight away represented with a communist symbol... Awful: a people's republic? you mean people running their own affairs? On their own terms? Ugly... The next square is devoted to show a republic as a disgraceful regime that places mates as head of state (note: John Howard is not my mate, but he could be head of state — representing the queen — since he's little prick Abbott's mate)...

The next square is that of a Racist Republic. We all know that a Republic can be racist, while a Pommy monarchy is not — as long as you're a pure descendant of an Aryan Germanic tribe with no chocolate running in your veins. 
Then, we jump down to the Keating/Turnbull Cane Toad Republic that got voted down because Turnbull was a stooge of John Howard, unless he deliberately misunderstood the popular vote... Keating was genuine, unlike that Governor General piss-pot, during the Whitlam years (next square) who was a piss-pot god for the royalists...
We thus come to a poll... The hot question today (18/07/2013) is literally: " Should republicans be required to agree on precisely what changes to the constitution they want before Ms Gillard or Dr. Bob Brown propose another referendum?" Yes/No. Vote... Hum... On the Royal ACM website — above this quite funny item (considering Bob Brown has left parliament more than a year ago and Ms Gillard has nothing to do with running anything, except a relaxing bath at home) —  is another arcane spooky place called "The Crowned Republic" whatever that is... Only a royalist would know.
The next scarecrow bad vampire amongst royalists is that a republic plebiscite shall lead straight away to an empire of Napoleonic proportions, in which a commoner (god forbid) or a general (bloody hell) could become god's chosen ruler... I ask you! This is not on...
Fred Nile — one hell of a religious nut in the NSW parliament — comes to the rescue, asking question about the price of electricity since he got in bed with that newish Aussie royal family  — the Packers loaded to the Rafters. Yes god gambles... so why not us, mere mortals who god made in his own image — female and colour excepted since god is a white "fella" with a long white beard.
From then on, it's all royal thingies, in a royal crescendo...: The Yacht Britannia that got retired a while back though still afloat on a memorable sea of fondest tears, the Royal Commissions (bastard Gillard attacking the religious pedophiles — though we could not have "republican commissions" could we) and the other deserving royal families of the world, from the orthodox churches to those nice Islamic lovely despots...
If you wish, you still can view all the ACM promotional videos — ON VIDEO... The technology has taken a turn upgrade to the traditional video machine — nothing to do with those republican DVDs and/or those atheistic Blue Ray discs... It was hard enough to make the step up from the hand written Magna Carta — and from that other work, the Domesday Book.
A couple of squares above the VIDEOS — still running backwards to the top job (that you cannot have) — is a pensive John Howard delivering the Neville Bonner lecture... For those who don't know, Neville Bonner was a decent half-Aboriginal person who became more waspish that the archbishop of Canterbury after joining the CONservative party of Australia — the party that calls itself Liberal, despite being none of that... 
The Game of Throne, of course finishes on the "succession" question (not for you, you bloody low life commoner with no hope of being a Queen/King EVER) though you can rise to the level of knight or dame, at which point you have reached your maximum points level of engrossing yourself on the royal ladder. This could be a tiny back door entrance for your descendants, though... If they are born in a privileged family with blue or anointed blood, they then can marry a prince who can turn into a toad or a tampon, if they are not careful... 

In the Game of throne, it's ALWAYS THE SAME FAMILY that wins

Long live the republic!

Gus Leonisky

 

I nearly forgot: In the Game of Throne, there is no community chest, only royal coffers... To which concept the ACM argue that it's cheaper to have a royalty paid for by another country, mother England, rather than have our own Republican President costing heaps... Yes, the last throw of the dice is about costs... No kidding...

Labor has chosen a Chinese-Australian lawyer mentored by Malcolm Turnbull in the Republican movement to contest the crucial seat of Bennelong.Jason Yat-sen Li, whose first foray into politics was to fight the rise of Pauline Hanson in the late 1990s, will be endorsed by Labor's national executive on Tuesday.

Despite Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's push for local democracy, the ALP machine has resolved to look past a list of local hopefuls to install Mr Yat-sen Li.

His 11th hour call-up was forced by the sacking of Labor's first pick, Jeff Salvestro-Martin, who is embroiled in the Independent Commission against Corruption's inquiry into Ryde Council.

But the new candidate is also no stranger to controversy. In a lapse of judgment in 1999 he berated the model Jodhi Meares for declining to wear a republican movement T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: ''Give an Australian the Head Job''.

''It's a shame. She had the chance to be the tits of the nation, but she's missed out now,'' he said at the time, before later apologising.

Mr Yat-sen Li was flying back to Australia from Beijing on Thursday night to begin campaigning in the seat, held by former tennis player Liberal John Alexander.
As a fluent speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese and a successful businessman based in Asia since 2005, Labor strategists believe he will be a big draw with Bennelong's large Asian population - 16.9 per cent of which is ethnic Chinese - under the leadership of fellow Mandarin-speaking Mr Rudd.

Bennelong - famously lost by John Howard in 2007 but wrested back from Labor's Maxine McKew by the Liberals at the last election - is now one of two Sydney Liberal seats targeted by the ALP, along with Macquarie on the slopes of the Blue Mountains.

Mr Yat-sen Li is a strident republican, once describing the British monarchy as an ''elitist, sectarian, sexist institution, completely out of touch with modern Australia''.

In 1998 he ran for the Senate on the multiculturalist Unity Party ticket but fell short.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/yatsen-li-answers-labors-11th-hour-callup-20130718-2q7b1.html#ixzz2ZSQdChpy

Australians should get a chance to see the future king of Britain next year with Prince William and his wife Kate planning to visit Down Under with baby George.
Speaking at the Anglesey Show on Wednesday, the Duke of Cambridge announced he wouldn't be taking on another tour of duty in Wales when his stint as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot ends in September.
Instead the new family is expected to move permanently to Kensington Palace in London, with William taking on more royal duties.Those duties will include, it now seems, an official visit to Australia in 2014.

Speaking to Max and Maxine Davies from Victor Harbor near Adelaide on Wednesday the Duke of Cambridge said: "George is doing really well, thank you.""We are all very hopeful of coming to Australia next year," William added, according to media reports in the UK.
Mr and Mrs Davies, aged 77 and 75 respectively, later said they were thrilled at the prospect of a royal visit.

"We are on holiday here and can't believe we got to talk to him," Mrs Davies said at the show, according to British tabloid The Daily Mail."How wonderful that the family will come to Australia to visit."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/william-and-kate-to-bring-prince-george-to-australia-20130815-2rxep.html#ixzz2byyS5FfZ

And as Turdy Tony said: 

"There were many a few years ago who kept telling us a republic is inevitable," he said.

"If this country lasts for a thousand years quite possibly at some point we might be a republic, but I don't think a republic is inevitable anytime soon and similarly I don't see same sex marriage as inevitable."

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The first episode told the interlinked tales of two great Olden Days kings, Arthur and Alfred. King Arthur probably never even existed, and yet he and his knights loom larger than many real-life monarchs.

The legend originated with a monk who claimed his tales of Arthur, committed to manuscript in 1136, were based on an ancient text – but no trace of the supposed source material was ever found. The date is significant, Hislop suggests: with English society divided in the traumatic aftermath of the Norman conquest, both sides could find comfort in King Arthur.

The Normans enjoyed hearing of an old Celtic king who battled with troublesome Saxon invaders, while the Saxons, looking at the same story, saw a local hero fighting against foreign tyranny. Each side saw its own plight reflected in the legend, and each used it to justify its own struggle.

Four centuries later, the young Tudor dynasty turned to Arthur to erase the memory of its humble Welsh origins. Henry VIII commissioned his own round table and placed at its centre, alongside the names of the Arthurian knights, the Tudor rose and a portrait of Arthur that looked remarkably like Henry himself. The message was clear: Henry was no upstart, but a true heir to the most English of ancient kings.

The source material is unbeatable, but the programme is at its best when Hislop moves beyond a simple retelling and develops an argument about what we can learn about ourselves from the way we engage with the past. His case looks set to strengthen in episode two, in which he contends, counter-intuitively, that modern Britain is a product of the Victorians’ obsession with the Middle Ages.

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/tv-radio/58082/ian-hislops-olden-days-have-i-got-historical-myths-you#ixzz2yTyVpKkJ

Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip visited the set of hit TV show Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland receiving a replica of the throne to crown her visit.

During the set tour in Belfast, the monarch was presented with a miniature Iron Throne, the massive black, snarled mesh of melted swords fought over by rival families in the global hit HBO series.

She also met actors from the show including Maisie Williams, 17, who plays Arya Stark, and 18-year-old Sophie Turner, who stars as her sister Sansa.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-25/queen-tours-game-of-thrones-set/5548666

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Long live the republic!...