Banjo,

It wasn’t a comprehensive debate it was a stage managed farce. There was never an intention to let the public to choose between a Republic and the Monarchy. Howard/Nick Minchin tactics were to manage the debate to their favour this they did by setting the terms and parameters of the debate, a limited plebiscite, refusing to allow the widely preferred method of a yes or no on a Republic. Then present a number of options in a run off situation.

The referendum wasn’t about do we want to be a republic it was which of the TWO alternatives do you want Turnbull’s option or status quo.
The referendum didn’t fail because the public couldn’t see any benefit in a Republic, that was Howard/Minchin’s spin! The truth was the public didn’t accept Turnbull’s undemocratically arrived at option they wanted more say.

As you are clearly committed to your argument I recommend we agree to disagree. Thanks for your civil input.

Col Rouge
You seem to have forgotten I am here for discussion not your unimaginative plagerized insults and bully boy BS.
Am I being precious? No just bored. When you’re ready to agree to a sensible discussion I’ll be around.

Stab! lucky! water off a ducks back. Yes! the convicts ,zmshdlaeurhpiuv2eh5tifhwetuifv2pior, there day. salivate! Not one of you understand the struggle of right and wrong!

THE world must be a collective! or better still, a global, if not, provable, back to all our places.

A 100 years of reduction and repair. This is what is needed, and you only need half a brain too understand, we are all in deep sh@t and that's a fact!

Australia day. and we are waking up too what? Another UK 1900 century fu-k up!, this is the reality. I spent my day with my family, and this is a treasure in its self!

I hope you back off once in a while and think about what is important.

With-out Love! you have NOTHINK! Gain the point for money at own peril, don't say I didnt warn you.

PS I told you ploy will loose it. The frame work is a work in its self. Only the man or woman will understand the which one has achieved, pray-tell, the ones who studies, what is the reality! Only them will mark the way.

In small, this is a tragedy!

And you all celebrating what?

EVO

The only thing Australia Day means to me is that it provides a badly needed long weekend!

But boy doesn’t it make it hard to go back to work on the Tuesday after!

Hwaaaaw (:>(

Colonoscopy wrote: "I see rainier has mastered the art of “Cut and Paste” (he probably does a lot of that as he plagiarizes the effort of others) unfortunately he has failed to associate it with any meaningful comment but of course, we are looking at a post from rainier"

Most intellectually able people who are able to understand abstraction - as such those words are comment enough.

Clearly you are more comfortable with a more didactic approach

So just for you:

An·glo·phile
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n. One who admires England, its people, and its culture and incessantly declares its virtues whilst living elswhere
An'glo·phile, An'glo·phil'ic adj., An'glo·phil'i·a

Tosser
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noun
1. terms of abuse for a masturbator
2. someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward)
3. a post Thatcherite romantic
4. a pretentious bore
5. one eyed ideologue

bes·ti·al·i·ty
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Pronunciation: "bes-chE-'a-l&-tE, "bEs-
Function: noun
: the crime of engaging in sexual relations with an animal —see also CRIME AGAINST NATURE

Examinator “You seem to have forgotten I am here for discussion not your unimaginative plagerized insults and bully boy BS.
Am I being precious? No just bored. When you’re ready to agree to a sensible discussion I’ll be around.”

I suppose that is one way of avoiding your lack of debating prowess. You cannot discuss the overwhelming significance of Australia’s British Colonial heritage, no differently to proclaiming to Banjo “As you are clearly committed to your argument I recommend we agree to disagree.”

You might think it suffices for a response as far as it goes it is an excuse and a far from adequate one for someone who proclaims their perfection and personal virtue at every opportunity.

Rainier “Most intellectually able people who are able to understand abstraction - as such those words are comment enough.”

Yes but there is a difference between “abstract” and “obtuse” which you seem to have missed,

Largely because you are so obtuse.

Regarding anglophile

I proudly acknowledge, that field of opportunity from which to recall Britain’s worldly significance and world shaping achievements is a far richer pasture to survey -

Than the bare rocks and burnt wilderness of your ancestry.

We well recall the pictures you were previously banned for posting and realized a long time ago your personal familiarity with “Tosser”. I fear you are merely projecting if you think such things are equally applicable to civilized folk.

Again bestiality… your tribal practices differ from those pursued by we folk of British stock.

(but it does remind me of a joke about beer bottles filled with blow flies… )

So rainier, keep ‘em coming, doubtless you are working yourself up (and maybe off) but it matters little to me, just an opportunity for a practice slapping

I have no objection to retaining , or changing , 26 January , as the date . I understand why Aboriginal citizens want it changed , and I suggest the day when Australia becomes a republic as an appropriate date . At present , I feel no stirring of national pride in this celebration . The head of state is a foreigner .

The national flag contains the foreign symbol of the Union Jack . Those whose idea of demonstrating national pride is to wave the flag [ regardless of what sort of flag it is ] , tattoo their faces with this flag and sing the national anthem with their hands on their hearts , are demonstrating that they have no concept of being Australian . They are behaving like second rate Americans , waving a British flag .