Yes! we must have a Republic hopefully in the near future, the reason being that sons and daughters of Monarchs are elected purely by their birth right, this is completely wrong, they can be complete idiots as they often are, at least now they have become more open on whom they marry, not like Queen Victoria's time when cousins were marrying cousins to keep all the wealth and power in the family, having read many books on Royalty I really do believe these people think they are God chosen, so lets get on and have an elected Australian as head of state,
Let's change the date as well.

Good article. Interesting response from Rudd; yes let's have a conversation, just don't expect me to listen...
Personally, if it should be an historical date, perhaps June 28 would be most appropriate. That was the date (1919) that Billy Hughes -somewhat controversially- signed the treaty of Versailles on behalf of the 'sovereign nation' of Australia.
Or perhaps October 1. This was the date parliament ratified the treaty by which the international community recognised Oz as a sovereign nation.
Truth be known, I'm in favour of the republic idea. And it should be in August.
We're a bit short on Public Hols, at that time of year.

Indeed Grim.

In fact, I think that when Australia finally grows up and becomes a republic, the actual timing should take into account the surfeit of public holidays in the latter part of the year. Every true Aussie reveres a Long Weekend.

In Queensland particularly the waning months of each year are relatively devoid of officially sanctioned occasions for having a day off. All the more reason for us to become a republic, and abolish the silly and anachronistic States while we're at it.

So long as it occurs somewhere between July and November.

Changing Australia Day is completely pointless because the clan prospective is still in place. CJ Morgan is completely right in his own category. Let me explain. He made an interesting input, which I will now elaborate on, which I have already put on this site. And I quote! "With each new born persons, evolution adds one more degree to the human outcome." what this means is what happened yesterday is finished. 33.8% are brand new people and this is why through the thousands of posts I have made, this is why evolution plus time plus effort makes a new human being, and this co-insides with the number of people that are not identified as a new species which co-insides directly with each brand new born human as a classified individual.

Nature has given us the network of existence and biologically speaking, I will give you another quote from me and it says simply this, everything is going to fast for our biological bodies to keep up and this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt we need to reduce but most importantly of all there is a brand new name for mans progress in evolution, What is man's new name?

The percentage of people that kill themselves are not mad or crazy there just new human beings that the rest of the world does not understand.
This is why evolution is a constant. This is why I am here to show that the new point of mankind is here, but yet there is no name for us, if I may be so bold.
I will never give up on the human race because evolutions constant reminders that we are changing, technologically or otherwise. I can see why CJ has got the sh@ts with you all and even though I don't agree fully with what he says, it doesn't sound by any means with otherwise but the best intentions.

Continue:
I have never left this site, but in an overall situation, races are not ready to be together yet and there is compounding evidence of this wherever you look.

Being Scottish, we have had our share of invaders but what rings out as clarity and in our history we have never hurt any of you, but we have remained strong and our help for mankind in its best representation of humanity I'm sorry to say natures rules apply and the strongest and the fittest will survive and anything less is a floor and where we started from, governs our fuel for survival, and col you are right the leches of society should be put to the front line and this is why war undoubtedly is the only solution to take care of the human race as a potential winner for all concerned.

Cold but true! otherwise like I have said mankind will eat this planet alive.

Changing Australia Day will serve no positive purpose because the simple fact is technology or not we are all clans people and this is why I have said all go back to your corners and reserve and protect and save because other forces are at work for you all. I would love to elaborate more but I think when it comes down to chewing on a bag of chips, take each and every chip as something new.

Bottom line is, there are new humans here so my next big question is, these new breed of people are killing themselves, because they simply cant comprehend the 19th century. (An open mind is the key)

These people are new and here with us now. I have made close to a thousand posts here and have never directly offended anyone so those who use insults,
aren't we the poor cousins. Next question is how would you identify a new person in evolution if you met them in the streets.
In layman terms we all need to go back to our own countries because quite simply we are not ready to mix just yet.

Billie,

‘Civilisation’ is an advanced state of human society, with a high level of art, science and religion and government. It also refers to cities and high standards of hygiene and public services.

Don’t confuse civilisation with culture. There is no way that aborigines could ever called ‘civilised’.