[Sca-cooks] 50 years of Queen Elizabeth II (OT)

[Glenda Robinson]

Hi Mark,

> >In Australia the populace likes her so much we voted to not become a
> >republic recently.
>
> Well, that's not really correct. The referendum was not about voting the
> monarchy out, it was about installing a new model of government. That
> referendum was defeated because the electorate did not support the
proposed
> model. Whatever the outcome, Australia would have remained part of the
> Commonwealth. The arguement that it was about rejecting the Queen was
> vastly over-simplified (and erroneous) propaganda.
>

I know, but she's still the Queen of Oz - if the populace REALLY didn't like
it, they would have taken whatever republic model that was offered and tried
to change it later.

Thats my story, anyway :-)

Glenda.