Prime Minister Luxon, on hearing that Charles and Camilla will be visiting Australia but not New Zealand, issued “an open invite” to visit New Zealand.
That is the same “invite” already available to everyone else in the world, in line with our major tourist industry.
A Buckingham Palace insider told a newspaper, “Naturally it will be a bitter disappointment on both sides”.
Really! I can’t think of anyone who would give a damn, let alone feel bitter disappointment.
On the other hand I know plenty of people who find it farcical that a goofy Pom living 12,000 miles away is our nominal Head of State.
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We’ve got Labour’s next term to look forward to anyway. They’ll do away with our Commonwealth membership …accept for deserved titles like Dame Jacinda.
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Yes. True. I had assumed that when the Queen passed we would do the obvious and start calling the GG El Presidente or some such..
Sir Robert you may be surprised. A few decades back there were plenty of people in Australia who thought the same and were confident that a referendum there would see Australia become a republic. However the Australian referendum on the monarchy went the same way as John Keys flag fiasco.
Beneath the vast and ancient Nullarbor plains of central Australia are a series of enormous caverns filled with water. The water levels rise and fall with the changes in air pressure. And if you are brave enough or foolhardy enough you can swim down to areas undisturbed for 100 millenia. In these regions are a series of bizarre insects, crustacea and fish that have evolved separately since before humans walked on the earth.
These creatures care much more about a royal visit than anyone I know.
Our system of Government with the disinterested Monarch works best. The Monarch only costs us when we host them (as it does for any other head of state/government,) we get a GG to do the Head of State work, we give the PM the ability to dismiss the GG for any acts that run contrary to the Government, and should the Monarch ever feel tempted to use the Reserve Powers they will do so knowing they’ll be dismissed as Head of State shortly thereafter.
Having an indigenous President would mean giving up certainty that our Parliament is the supreme law making body.