Yeah ! Let's demand a plebiscite on the republic issue ! As soon as possible !

And let's have it in the weeks after the upcoming wedding.

You know it makes sense.

Joe

Can we become a Republic and still have the stability
that we've enjoyed all these decades? Would Australians
really want another corrupt politician yielding even
more pointless power as our country's leader?

If becoming a Republic we could somehow guarantee that
we will honour and respect our Indigenous heritage and
culture, our British heritage and culture, and our
immigrant heritage as part of our unique Australian
identity - And if becoming a Republic would be about
declaring our sovereignty as one Australian people,
and having a fully independent nation - then perhaps
the cost and all the difficult changes just may be worth it.

But at present, there is so much to still discuss and
weigh up. If we're going to make changes - we have to
somehow try to ensure that what we are changing to - is
better than what we've had. And at present I'm not so sure
of that.

I'm always reluctant to change anything unless there is a very good chance the replacement will be better for us.
So far I've never seen anything that comes close to that.

Dear Big Nana,

Exactly!

People don't realise how much President Trump has achieved, just in his first year. Clearly, there is something to being a republic that is missing in our system.

So let's have the sort of system in which someone like Trump could be OUR President, with his current checks and balances !

Plebiscite NOW !

Joe

"..there is so much to still discuss and weigh up"

Such as why bollards don't protect people on a pedestrian crossing in Melbourne?

Or how did immigration and multicultural policies and lack of accountability of politicians to the people, conspire to make Melbourne world's number one mafia city outside of Italy?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/mafia-member-testifies-his-family-migrated-to-australia/8996618

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/behind-the-1960s-victoria-market-calabrian-mafia-wars/news-story/007e761afb2c8fb541221ada3cff72f7

Perhaps those Sudanese youth gangs in Melbourne, and the 'dirty little secret',

"Australia’s culture capital, an image vital to the state’s tourism, has been plagued for years by escalating and rampant street-gang violence, home invasions, carjackings and assaults on police.

Restaurants and community centres have been trashed and YouTube videos have racked up thousands of hits showing sprawling street brawls involving, at times, hundreds of violent offenders"[The Telegraph]

Or maybe talk about the number of young couples who are having to put off and abort the children they want and planned for, because they cannot get jobs?

A new year and the rush is on to give the public a diversion to bluff and occupy them. Sure makes one wonder what other social rejigging and nasties are going on behind closed doors that the diversion is so urgently needed.