The Queen and Australia: Residences, Governor General, etc...

[Roslyn]

Originally Posted by tinkerbell1948

I so agree with you there yes we will become a Republic at some stage however like you I think there are many more important things to concentrate on just now

I agree with the two of you, but we now have a Labor Government, and turning us into a republic is important to them for some reason.

[Polly]

It's the official Queen's Birthday in most of Australia today. Here's the opinion of the local tabloid rag:

It's happy birthday to who? | Herald Sun

[wbenson]

Along with New Zealand, but not Canada, and for the last time in Bermuda, we get this day off to mark the birth of a remarkable woman whose only fault it seems was producing her dysfunctional children, each of whom could in some unforeseen circumstances replace her as our head of state.

Leaving aside the commentary about the Queen, Canada doesn't get this day off but it does get a day off for her birthday.

[Elspeth]

That's pretty unfair. Yes, three of her children managed to get themselves into dysfunctional marriages, but I don't think any of them are dysfunctional individuals.

[Polly]

Unfair, indeed!

However, the journalist in question has a very high profile international c.v.,which is worrying.

More than that, I was shocked to hear on my local ABC radio station, (our prestigious national broadcaster) a whole day of parodies against Her Majest and her family, eg,

There was a 'interview' with HM, quite funny and good-hearted in its own way until it came to her plans for the day.


The impersonator said, over and again, that her 'son, and his wife..the, err, aah, eeek, Duchess of York (giggle, laugh) were having lunch with her. Time and again it was inferred that The