"If the Queen places her handbag on the table at dinner, it signals that she wants the event to end in the next five minutes, if she puts her bag on the floor, it shows she’s not enjoying the conversation and wants to be rescued by her lady-in-waiting.” One more item of significance that the Queen carries is a “crisply ironed £5 or £10 note.” This, however, is something she only carries with her on Sundays as an offering at church. Otherwise the Queen reportedly never carries money in her purse or in her pockets. Philips Azur Elite GC5039/30 – best luxe steam iron is used for ironing the 5 quid , he charges naval commander rates about 40 quid/hr.

Qantas has royal special seats with Oxford hostesses and same for republicans with 20% loading for oil-presidents. The $240m. RAAF planes for PM are way too small carrying only 40 bums and who knows what a republic would need. Defence confirmed it was "managing the modification", with the cost to come from $190 million already set aside to alter planes according to the air force's needs. Britain managed it for £10 million, which equates to about $16.5 million. The Queen gets rent subsidy for a few rooms above the Pall Mall restaurant she runs for overseas dictators.

The biggest reason against a Republic, and it's only one of many, is that as much as people pushing the agenda keep filling the heads of Aussies with messages of praise and aptitude thereby creating ego's the size of football fields, it unfortunately for the pro-Republican movement, does not address the fact that they are attempting to evade/avoid the obvious.
Not only are people mis-informed, un-informed or ultimately, just plain stupid, they are simply not in a position to decide who the leader of an Australian Republic should be let alone vote at all.
Then there is another obvious con-job.
Who chooses the applicants?
We are removing the safeguards of the 'direct' link to the Monarchy for a 'cast adrift' option of anarchy!
The theme of Foxy's link is just another pro-republican pushing an old and worn out agenda.
If we are supposed to be swayed by the few words on that link, sadly for the pro-rep mob, it's just another of the same boorish message we have heard again and again.
And as usual carries no actual or factual content which would justify, supporting, let alone promoting, their agenda.
I have no doubt that one day we may see just another typically Aussie, f@)&ed up decision, get implemented, like the Republic and so we just might end up, 'up sh!t creek without a paddle' yet.

Foxy,

Is that link the best that you can find?

It was interesting, but it only gives a few REASONS and reasons aren't BENEFITS; can no one find a benefit to becoming a republic?

He says, "A Republic is a democratic nation in which the highest public office is held not by a monarch, who inherits the position by birth, but instead by a citizen chosen on merit."

Being a bit careless, is he not?

How would the electors choose a President on merit, or is the preferred system the one that was rejected, choice by the politicians?
Fat chance for merit there!!
Not all of the World's Republics have been democratic and not all of the Monarchies have been heredity, some have been by election.

Belly,

Have you found any benefits yet?

Ise Mise how does one answer you? any list even ten posts long will not be considered as an answer by you.
However the warm feeling comes over me every time you ask silly questions.
See becoming a republic is a sure bet.
It is NOT telling Briton to shove it.
Not sell this country out to communists, right wing groups, not a plot to make us part of a one world government.
In fact it is nothing to fear.
It is evolution, we are no longer England,s baby, like all children , *most of us*, grew up long ago.
Kids leave home, go their own way, have their own thoughts and ideas.
Again face it, you are trying to throw stones at what you see is a threat, no threat exists, we will always have our shared history,
We however will be equal not in any way a child refusing to leave home

We got our free portrait of the Britannic Majesty in colour with halo and join the local council in evening worship on bended knees. Gough was nice but his kangaroo skin cloak was a bit tacky. We are equal with English who grovel to Elizabeth II and with Scots who call her Eliz I due to less miracles north of the Tweed. Genuine diggers do the full prostrate Aussie crawl around the palace at Yarralumla and get a gumleaf to suck.

Just a few more details on the bottom of France. Where exactly is it Belly? Found the arse of US. Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th- and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.