Oh! Our Conservative brethren are having an orgasm with this thread. Their adulation for the old stick from England knows no bounds.

All I can say is I quote the godfather of conservatism in Australia
Pig Iron Bob Menzies:
"I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die."

I'm getting all chocked up, I going to cry.

I've been trying to compile a list of Liz's greatest achievements over the last 60 years but all I've managed to come up with is -

1. Stay alive for 80+ years.
2. Don't do anything embarassing or controversial.
3. Read speeches written for you by the PM's of incoming Governments.
4. Open things cut ribbons as required.

Anybody care to add anything meaningful here?

Well first stop the conservative rot.
All sides of politics are represented on Republican and HM PTY LTD.
Liz made headlines after PK put his arm around her waist.
3 gallons of smelling salts needed, and that was just for the male lackeys in her entourage.
Who would eat the soggy cuey sangas if not for her mob.
What would we do with all the some what different gentle men serving her?
And talking on her be half.
Not to worry only about a week of isolation from TV it will all be over until Fergy puts her foot in some ones mouth.

Good grief.

I think I am going to chunder.

Perhaps it's time that our nation looked
again at the question of our nationhood
and whether we want things to remain the same
or whether we want things to change.

Under our Constitution the British Monarch is
the font of all legal power in Australia and is
our formal head of state. Until we break our
last Constituional links to the mother country
our nationhood is incomplete.

Now 112 years of
Federation, perhaps it is time that Australia
finally joined the world of nations as a full, equal,
unshackled to any other - nation.

Do Australians
want to continue to be the subjects of a foreign
unelected figurehead monarch especially
when they are treated as any other foreigner
when travelling to Britain.
And when the British
monarch travels overseas she represents British
interests - not Australian.

Then there is also the
question of telling one's children that they can achieve
anything in this country - except the top job.
That it belongs to someone who is selected not through
merit but hereditary - and Catholics are specifically
ineligible. Does this go with our Australian values?
A fair go for all?

Australia's contribution to the Diamond Jubilee was
$5.4 million. Could that money have been better used in
this country?