i vote we drag everybody here over the line
and design a Republic of Australia together

Let's examine some Rugby League history:

1999: NRL player * * * exposed himself to a female tourist in a bar, blaming his behaviour on drink. He pleaded guilty to indecent exposure.

1978: NRL player * * * served 10 years imprisonment for a drug importation offense

1968: NRL forward * * * died in a fight outside a nightclub

1975: NRL winger * * * died in police custody

1967: NRL player * * * while on tour walked naked through the streets of Leeds

1989: NRL player * * * was jailed for 3 years for drug trafficking

1995: NRL player * * * urinated under a blackjack table at Conrad Jupiters Casino

1999: NRL player * * * defecated in a teammate's shoe and vomited over the walls of his motel room in Dubbo

1999: NRL player * * * was found unconscious in a gutter outside a Sydney police station. Police described him as "The drunkest human being ever"

1997: NRL player * * * struck and injured 2 women in a Canberra bar. He was acquitted in the ACT Magistrate's Court on the basis that he was so drunk he did not intend to commit the assaults - he didn't know what he was doing.

It gets worse, a LOT, LOT worse - - - CJ Morgan do you want me to continue? Gotta love Thugby League, it "really" builds character in men.

"i vote we drag everybody here over the line
and design a Republic of Australia together"

A republic is where we are not part of the commonwealth, no Queen?

What would happen with Peters laws? What are the advantages of being a republic?

PS.. wonderful to hear mum and baby doing well.

whistler, "i vote we drag everybody here over the line
and design a Republic of Australia together"

Take only the good-humoured, leave behind the perpetually angry and outraged who can't get by without their daily fix of bile.

That would prune the field down a bit.

sock-puppet:"do you want me to continue? "

Please do, I could do with a laugh socky. How about naming names, as well? After all, since the hysterics about the TWO CHILDREN DIED(sic) I'm afraid no one with more than 2 cerebral neurons believes a word you say without checking for themselves.

That's the trouble with telling porkies, socky, you'll always get caught out, which is why we honest people don't do it. I do hope that helps.

Now off you toddle and get on with that list like a good little sock-puppet, there's a dear...

depends on what kind of republic, The Pied Piper.

although something like
two-thirds of Australians
favour their nation becoming a republic,
in a referendum in 1999
a republic comprising a simple change
from the Queen as Head of State
to a President as Head of State
did not gain sufficient support.

a republic offers an opportunity
to update Australia's Constitution,
relatively unchanged since 1901,
to the modern era of equal rights
and globalisation.

an equal rights republic
enacts law by agreement between women and men
resolving the confusion arising
when women and men boss over each other
which results in governance by guesswork
as to what might be on the mind of the opposite sex.
the Courts are a particular focus of this guesswork.

Peter the Believer's concerns
appear to revolve around the Constitution's attempt
to distribute powers between
a Head of State who is also Head of a Religion
and the alleged separation of
men's legislatures and a men's jurisdiction at law,
all of which can be resolved with an equal rights Republic,
an executive of senior citizens appointed by the Parliament
occupying the Office of Head of State.

moreover, when the States agreed to form
the Commonwealth of Australia
the Constitution enabled to do so
provided them with a State's legislature,
the Senate, to protect their interests
with which law is enacted by agreement
with a people's legislature,
the House of Representatives.

over the past century
most of the powers of the States
have been transferred to the Commonwealth
through a series of High Court judgements
so the Senate has become largely redundant to its purpose
offering the opportunity
for a women's legislature occupying the Senate
to enact law by agreement with the House of Representatives
already a men's legislature
in response to Australia's equal rights commitment
to global culture.