Op2

You have a butt?

I thought that you had laughed it off.

You are too gentle on me Issy...But that was funny...lmao

You could have said I am unique because I not only talk out of it I type using my thoughts from it...

Come on kick me harder...lol

OP2, I accept your personal opinion on your disliking our govt. I am way ahead of you there. What I am concerned with is that even though you may dislike the British royalty and all those in charge, it does not follow that they dislike us. This privilege is reserved for the British govt, not the Royal Family. Churchill was an ass but luckily he is just another arrogant, ignorant politician who is here today and gone tomorrow. Who do you think will be front and centre of a Republic if Australia goes down that path? More of the excrement we have been smelling for decades. No as much as people don't like the idea of someone overseeing us, believe me we would be far better off with Britain watching over us than not. For us to become a Republic we have to have a much larger population for starters, then all that follows with that. We are hurting now with these thieves running the show. Imagine how much worse it will become when they know they can do what they want unchecked. They will design the new Republic to give themselves unlimited powers and we will have no recourse. At least with the Privy council and the Queen as head of state, we do.

OMG!

Did you hear the Royals speaking up at Churchill?

Did you hear the Royals objecting to the nuclear tests?

Did you hear the Royals disagreeing with the way the Brits had planned the withdrawal of troops from Gallipoli?

Did you hear them arguing the effects on us of the Brits joining the European Union back in the day?

Did you hear them leading a defense against the aboriginal artifacts and skeletons stolen from graves?

The British Government is the Queen's Government...

I'm not saying that they don't like us and I don't believe the British Government doesn't like us...It has nothing to do with it!

They all have a simple Britain first policy as I would if I were a Brit...BUT we are Australians and I want us at the top of the tree not some fake thinking that they are our protectors...

The British Parliament and the House of Lords are rabble also... The Royals horrid treatment of Diana shows they are nothing to admire, and will always protect their own first.

Diana famously said "Well there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded".

And was she hated by the Royals for her honesty! They turned on her like rabbid dogs and everyone forgets it...lol

OP2, I get it, but don't bring emotion to a debate as it will tilt the outcome into a personal one and not a truthfull, practical and factual one. The Royal family, by their own decree, does not get involved in day-to-day running of a country. Only when there is a perceived or actual threat to it's internal stability and security. So don't worry the Royal family have no interest in sticking their noses into our affairs. It is we who should hope they won't sever ties with us. Truth be known, they are just like any govt employee, they are happy playing solitaire on their work computers, all day, if they could, but for the fact that they have to attend to a consumers demand. Then they have to actually do something. The Royals are the same. They plod along doing whatever they do until a Commonwealth country seeks advise or assistance, Then they have to get off their buts and attend to the problem/request from that country.
I have been a monarchist for as long as I can remember partly because they legally and actually own the countries they rule. She comes from a long line of kings and queens who gained the right to own those countries through victories of war. So I see them as the owners of the Commonwealth countries. The extreme left is the main force behind the Republic because they can't stand the thought that someone who is king or queen, and better than them, 'owning' their country.
As for Diana and Fergy. They were commoners who were too stupid to 'play' one of the greatest roles in life. Diana was a 'bimbo' and way too unfit for the role she married into. So hubby was 'having it off with a horse', or is it a dog? So what? All previous royal males had their hobbies. Unfortunately he chose a, whatever. For this I am disgusted at him. I don't get it, he had this sexy looking hornbag in bed with him every night, and he prefers, what?

They probably vote more intelligently than about half the voters, & most certainly more intelligently than about 6%.