Almost every Australia Day now features a media promoted stunt engineered by the republican movement. It’s surprising they never put the same effort into developing just one workable republican model.
One year, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks made a spectacle of himself demanding the Queen ‘give back’ Tom Roberts’ magnificent painting of the opening of the first Federal Parliament by her grandfather, King George V.
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