Hasbeen,

I don't know about you, but I haven't noticed Quentin Bryce poncing around race courses half tanked lately.

But I suppose there's still time.

Hasbeen, you are a nasty piece of work!
What does the colour of one's hair in politics have to do with anything?
I realise you have a problem with females in any form of authority, but hair colour is taking it too far.

Shall we check all the male politicians hair (if they have any left) and see who pours bottles of 'Grecian1000' over their heads each morning before work?
What of all the real fake heads who plop a mop of fake hair on top of it?
That is such an attractive look.

The current Governer General has more class in her little finger than all the other politicians put together...

Cont'd.
Why should Quentin Bryce have offered to resign in the first place?
She was in that position first.

Bill Shorten should not have run for party leader while his mother-in-law was the Governor General :-)

Dear Paul,

The Governor General delivered four Boyer lectures.
And I think that what she said needs to be looked
at in context. She focused on her belief that
Australian society should place human rights at its
centre. Also, as the editorial in The Saturday Age,
November 23, 2013 points out -

"The freedom to express thoughts and opinions...
is a precious and important right. It is the core of
our democracy. If we could not hear alternative opinions.
test them against our own views, expand and enhance them,
our political processes and ability to make decisions
for our community would wither. Nor would we have a
creative and flourishing society, bubbling with ideas
and innovation."

"This freedom, though, is not unfettered. It comes with
important responsibilities, some prescribed by laws
related to defamation or hate speech. There are limits,
too, that we set fro ourselves out of respect for other
people, and these are the moral or ethical considerations
we apply, often intuitively, because we do not want to
hurt someone... yet some people lose sight of the
normal disciplines and indulge instead in insults..."

Their so called "observations" might garner them a band
of "followers" but they erroneously interpret that
"adulation" as a licence to say whatever they like.

The Governor General has always been careful in her behaviour,
and her behaviour to date has been exemplanary to say the
least. She was merely speaking on the topic of why
we should continue to rally for a better Australia -
especially as she made it quite clear that
"Our children and grandchildren will become the custodians of
the Australia we are shaping now. In their hands, they will
reshape it according to their own vision and aspirations."
She was talking about the future, not the past. And that
was most appropriate, at least in my opinion.

'How respectful of you, runner, to the Governor General of Australia. '

No Poirot how respectful Bryce herself is of the office expressing perverted personal views while holding such an office. Just because you happen to agree with her certainly does not make it right. She collects the pay and trashes the office something her side of politics as well as some on the other side have no problem with. She then has the nerve to say she beleives in being a republic no doubt happy to receive her benefits from pretending.

Dear runner,

Thank you for proving the point being made in
The Age article.