Given Australia's Prime Minitser has apologised for the poor treatment of indineous Australias? Should Queen Elizabeth II apologise for the Crown's treatment of Convicts, the Slave Trade, Nobles having rights to rape women engaged to wed to an other men and trying to keep the Irish illiterate? If not, should she stay our Chief of State?

Yes. Keep her!
She's a true treasure.
Without her we would have had no one to look up to.
Whats done is done.
The Bible says we've got to forgive for past wrongs or God doesnt forgive us.
Would you have the same respect for a Bob Hawke, or a Paul Keating or even a John Howard as head of state?
I wouldnt have.
Theres something gloriously wonderful about a Royal Household, especially when you realise God has Given it to us to love and cherish as something of special value.
Long live the Queen.

Dear Oliver,

Seeing as Australia is to become a Republic, it's only a question of when?

Your question is really irrelevant to this country.

All,

It is meant be an open question. We have apologized retrospectively for our wrongs, as have other countries over the poor treatment of indigenous people. Should Britain, Spain and Portugal do the same for its worse treatment of peoples in the name of mercantilism? QEII simply represents as Kevin Rudd the Office of PM.

Among the Articles of the Church of England remains a belief in the "original sin" of Adam and Eve. Herein, it was held by Church and State that Black people are black in punishment for their ancestors sins. QEII is defender of that faith, even, if "not" this interpretation is not realised today.

Did you that Downing Street in London is named after the Anglican Revered George Downing, a slave trader. He is noted to have said:

"I believe that they have bought this year no less than a thousand negroes and, the buy they buy, the better able are they to buy for, in a year and a half,they will earn with God's blessing as much as they cost." Christian Downing's perspective

Defender of the Faith William IV, as Duke of Clence opposed the abolition of slavery in the House of Lords.

In good conscience can QEII maintain the title of DoF.

I agree that Australia will becomea republic, not in the nexy five uears, but perhaps by 2025. Hope I see it.

QEII has been a good queen and served her people well. That is not the point.

Now that's being ridiculous.

Dear Oliver,

Tony Blair, it must be remembered, had found it politically correct to
say "sorry" to the Irish people for Great Britain's inefficient handling of the potato famine 150+ years ago.

It is unlikely though that Queen Elizabeth II will apologise for anything.

An apology that comes from the heart carries with it a sense of sincerity. But an apology that is sought for and offered reluctantly is an insult to the memory of those to whom the perpetrators of the crime are supposedly saying "sorry" without, of course, meaning to say it. And here again, the point needs to be made that crimes committed in continuity cannot be atoned for by simply saying a very
reluctant "sorry."

Can you really imagine Queen Elizabeth II, on behalf of the entire British Nation saying "sorry?" And if she does it should be for all crimes that were perpetrated in the name of holding aloft the Union Jack.