Foxy, a slight correction.
Firstly, I'm not sure who the 'balmy army' is, but if memory serves, we don't sing 'God Save the Queen' as a matter of course but on specific occasions and gatherings as has been the practice and proto-col for centuries, becoming a republic won't change that.
I think you mean 'Advance Australia Fair', which is our national anthem.
Becoming a republic won't stop us from singing that either.
The Royal visit expenses, I assume you mean, 'extra' to the standard costs of the people already employed by the govt, such as police and military.
Those expenses are negligible and amount to very little, certainly not worthy of mention and certainly no where near the republican costs.
Your disdain of the constitution is sad, it was created as a vision of how to conduct ourselves as a Nation.
It holds true to values that do not and must not change just because people have become more arrogant, selfish and self righteous.
Changing the constitution is like changing the Ten Commandments.
If society lived by the Ten Commandments, we would be a better people

Foxy
What? That was equally as intelligent as your non-logic.
Could you tell us the benefit of those benefits? Preferably, compared with the US in 1776.

Changing the constitution is like changing the Ten Commandments.
If society lived by the Ten Commandments, we would be a better people.
ALTRAV
The constitution of the Founding Convicts was the House of Lords and the Commons . Now the Lords are pretty close to the God of Moses and the convicts came through the Sydney Heads like walls on either side which destroyed Pharaoh and his chariots. We're a bit short of lords these days , Is Mise is one but he's short.

"Dear Belly,

Not sure about this until I find out what we're
going to replace it with.
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 6:26:23 PM"

Is this the same Foxy who has become a fount of wisdom on a republic?

Is Mise,

Yep!

ALTRAV,

You're wasting your time addressing posts to me.

I don't read them.