I TRULY think we all, ME too, need to lift the standard of debate.
I will never ever fall in front of keyboard warriors who damn me for my views.
If we consider, before posting, every opinion has not just a right to be heard/seen
But we need all views put up always
I was impressed during my time as union official, by Negotiations, both sides got a hearing.
Sometimes both sides learned from the other.
And always no single side ever ,won everything it wanted.
I and the 4 or 5 million Australians who say they want a republic,have every right to our views.
ise mise,ALTRAV, the other poster, and the shadow who will not face me, lets us agree, we ALL OF US do not need toshow our contempt for each other here.

//If you are then maybe you can give us an example of a tangible benefit that a republic will bring to us ordinary people.//

With any luck, it will stop our media spazzing out every time some minor royal gets hitched or drops a sprog and they can report on something that's actually newsworthy.

//Are you coming to the defence of Belly?//

I'm not leaping to the defence of the republican cause, because I favour a constitutional monarchy (and vote Labor). I was just pointing out that your simplistic liberal = monarchist, labor = republican argument is a steaming load of dingo's kidneys. And that a political party's ideological position on a matter they can't actually change without a successful referendum is a good deal less important to thinking voters than said party's platform on things they can change easily through Acts of Parliament.

Sorry if that bothers you, Your Lordship.

Foxy
1) The barmy army will no longer be able to sing:
"God save YOUR gracious Queen."
Exactly , she's the Queen of the Australian team and as QofA is an implacable opponent of the Pom team. They're barmy but less barmy than Slavs who can't play sport without being drugged senseless.

2) The money we spend on royal visits will be better
used and -spent on our people.
Pollies are skilled at using travel funds for limos and helicopters . Space flights for pollies will soak up any savings.

3) We will finally be able to sort out our antiquated
Constitution to make sure it serves our people and
not the monarch.
She can't vote , can't post in OLO unless she's ALTRAV and is plotting a take-over and you can't refuse to serve a monarch in a pub unless drunk.

Wow!

Some benefits, at last, they ain't much but they're something.

Of course, it would never occur to Foxy that money saved on Royal Visits, (discount the stays at Admiralty House, Yarralumna and the various State Governors residences as they are standing charges as are the wages of the Armed Services and to an extent the police also, as some of them would be on overtime (benefit to some ordinary Australians!), would be far outweighed by the waste of setting up a republic.

Nick,

Why don't you surprise us all and say something intelligent?

Is Mise,

It's all part of the learning process.

Keep digging and researching - you'll learn more about
the benefits.