TUS - Yes, not my words but I agree with the sentiment. And you've either deliberately misinterpreted the sentiments posted here in order to get noticed, or you're being obtuse: No one is saying there is "bitterness" about being happily married and having babies. It's more about the media telling us we still believe in fairy tales and spinning the same story over and over again. And good luck to you if you want to participate in that. I personally don't know anyone that is as interested as what the media is making out we are (you're the first). ps: Your daughter won't don't need money to be treated like a princess by the right man

If you don't like reading about it - don't. The media is in the business of selling newspapers and magazines, and if stories about Mary and bub do that, so be it.

And if so many people think it is such a memorable event, it means they are pretty happy with their lot and Australia is going okay.

t.u.s

t.u.s. as usual, you accurately observe the characters of posters and in this case the article author.

I personally, have no interest in matters regal. That said, I have sufficient imagination and absence of envy to support your own view – live and let live.
The last time I looked, Denmark was not part of the Australian Federal Territory.
Similarly, regal ascendency (particularly Danish accession) imposes no obligation on any Australian.

That Greg Barnes is so small minded as to attempt to make some political pin-prick over the matter and other “nongs”, similarly bereft of magnanimity as to agree with him says far more about the left hand sweep of Australia’s political pendulum than the nobility of a small European Kingdom.

As for “No doubt many critics will say this article misses the point - that celebrating the rags-to-riches story of Mary is nothing more than a wonderful escape in these dark days of terrorism, earthquakes and tsunamis.”

And Nero, when asked whether to ship into Rome grain for bread or sand for the circus shipped sand etc etc.

Life is not just filled with the boring stuff of existing, I suppose when the socialists wake up to that, they might stand some chance of gaining Federal government again but until then, they will remain out there, in the wilderness, lost (and instantly forgettable).

Shame on all uppity commoners.

Let me say as a Royalist - a supporter of that popular Plantagenet, Edward "Longshanks" - the "Hammer of the Scots" - that an insult to our Mary is an insult to Women's Magazines and therefore to a great many Woman of Australia.

Without the hard data about the Royals that we so love only trivia would remain in Ladies Magazines.

Then remove the trivia from Womens Day, Womens Weekly, New Idea etc you'd be left with a rag as slim as the anorexic Chickie Babe grinning skull-like on the cover.

So I take umbrage at any criticisms of Fred, Mary or dear baby Christian.

Let me end with the words of the late Prime Minister Sir Gordon Menzies about his love for the newly coronated Queen Elizabeth.

"I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die".

And now to you dear Mary.

Part One

To Greg, Leigh and Lisamalee,

Not long after 9/11, it was the Canadian philosopher, John Ralston Saul who went on about the Murdoch dominated media, which he intimated, that while accentuating the fear of Islamic terrorism, Murdoch also had the skill to keep a society comatose or dumbed down in dangerous times. We have seen it so much in Westralia lately, which as well as our one public paper, the “West Australian” splashing the significant birth of Tassie Mary’s little-un all over the front page. Having top pride of place on the opinion page, also, was Gerard Henderson, preaching his usual ultra-right wing points of view. No doubts about the political leanings of our only WA public news editor either. A couple of months or so ago on special page 7 was a spread from Mr Costello warning our learning institutions to come in line and be more patriotic, no doubt aping George W’, and his warning after 9/11 about not to reason why - and if you are not with us you must be against us. Maybe Ralston Saul did get too cynical about Canada’s close-by neighbour not long after 9/11, but reading his thoughts, it is so interesting to learn how a powerful media can pretty well run a country, indeed, three countries, as when the English-speaking peoples, the Yanks, Brits, and Aussies all illegally plunged into Iraq together, our little Johnny Howard as proud as punch about it.

So why not get our publics in escape mode for a little while, not only in cricket with our PM in attendance, but also slipping back a hundred and fifty years into those glorious colonial years, when Queen Victoria received the Star of India to adorn her Empress Crown. But after Gandhi’s non-violent revolution, we’ere not sure whether it still graces our Federation of Nation’s Colonial emblem or not?

Part Two

To Greg, Leigh and Lisamaree

If Mr Murdoch does want us to pine for Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, you can bet your life the Iraqis do not want to be reminded of the colonial days, when it was a colonial India style Dyarky democracy that was promised to Iraq after WW1. In this age of world-encircling missile capabilities, however, no need for either Yanks, Brits or Aussies to be stationed as watch-keepers close by every Iraq-government post, as all can be under command from the White-House, even able to watch-keep as well for Exxon and BP, so much needed by our faithful public to allay our rotten oil-shortage. To buggery with those low-down Arabs, say many of our Aussies in the streets, they’d never have the brains to run their oilfields, anyhow. As the young Churchill said after WW1, when he ordered the RAF to bomb the revolting Iraqis and Kurds, these are only tribesmen of low intelligence, so let ‘em be plastered. In this coming motor age, we want the oil.

It gives reminder that we’d better demand a good look at that Iraqi constitution coming up. Make sure it doesn’t contain some words in invisible ink that will never ever come to public view, but only to Donald Rumsveld and Co, conveniently later on.

The world hasn’t changed much, has it, with little Denmark aping in regalia, the colonial great nations to a T, but not their thieving, we hope?

No wonder we can’t solve the ever worsening problems between Christians and Moslems, when our political leaders seem to have such a meagre knowledge of Western history, that they have to slip back into colonial culture to find respite.