ASymeonakis - the racist (anti-Aussie) taxi driver.

Do you ever pick up pax at Adelaide airport?

Look behind when you pick up your fare or next time you go Greek.

Colonoscopy,

I simply cut and pasted some words/defintions. If you see fit to reflect on their relevance to your own character, that is your choice.
Far be it for me to accuse you of what you already know / or are in denial about yourself.

50 dollars is my last offer!

rainier, you cannot buy me, although I am sure you would not be above trading your sister

examinator,
There are quite a.few things that I am far from happy about, with the UK. After all we did for Briton during the war, when they thought it may be more advantagous to them they cast aside our trade and went to the EU. We gave heaps of aid, especially food, to them both during and after the war. I clearly recall butter rationing up until about 1950 here, because the butter was being sent to Briton. Despite our close ties and part of the Commonwealth, if one travels to the UK, we Aussies have to queue in the foreigners queue at customs while EU people get preferential treatment. This includes the Germans who bombed hell out of them. These things irk me!

But I am not going to discard a good workable governance system simply because of this. You should look again at the events of the Constitutional Convention. If anyone could call it a farce it would be the Monacists because it was top heavy with Republicans. Despite what you say the Republicans decided on what they wanted and it was put to the people and defeated. You and a few others should accept that and be gracious about it. The issues you mentioned were after thoughts, after the race was run. You are thinkung 'perhaps we should have done this or that'. Blame the ref for losing the game.

The reason you do not want to continue the debate now is because you know I will ask you to show ALL the practical advantages of becoming a Republic and you will be unable to do so. For there are none and you still want us to risk a good system for one that may well be worse.

I want to stay in the Commonwealth so the Queen can come sack Mr Rudd if we ask. (joking (kinda))

But yes, why fix what isn't broken. UK is a big part of the majority of Australians history and not a problem.

I sailed into the Island of Gizo, in the Solomons, quite a few years back now, but also quite a few years after the Solomons had achieved self government. The paint on the main warehouse, behind the warf was rather faded.

Even faded, it was clear to read.
GIZO, BRITISH SOLOMON ISLAND PROTRECTERATE.

I was most impressed with the maturity of these people.

All over the pacific I had watched a frenzy of activity, as newly independent people rushed to obliterate the signs of their colonial past, but not here. As one said to me, why bother, it won't change my day. After all, it's just a couple of lines, on a bit of paper, & a sign on a shed.

Many of the respondents here might gain something, from spending some time with those islanders. On second thoughts, they should stay away, the Solomon Islanders don't need these insecure, immature types up there, demanding they paint out a bit of their history.