Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 4:39pm:


Just because them having affairs was/is status wuo, it doesn't make it right.

Charles and the others used Diana, and the way that they treated her is beyond contempt.

I still believe that she woukd still be alive if it weren't for that.

care factor: nil.

We need to kick out the royal family and become a republic with an elected President/GG.

Yes elected, no that is not the US system. Our GG or president has no executive power, the POTUS is military CiC and head of the US Public Service.

I do NOT want our Head of State to be a puppet appointed by the PM (or by Parliament which is the same thing.)

Until we symbolically cut the apron strings to the UK we cannot move into the Asian century.

cods wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 4:50pm:


Having King Charles or a North Korean system are not the only options.

austranger wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 8:10pm:


Indeed - the whole show was twisted to give the answer the pollies wanted - THEIR elected eunuch as a 'President'.  In order to attain that end they loaded the 'commission with the faithful and gullible and feministed school kids who thought their wildest dreams had come true and they were actively running the show for us... (god help us - these kids actually believe in global warming and that affirmative action for girls/women is the only way things should be)....

We, The People as Sovereign wanted a popularly elected president with powers and a genuine set of checks and balances.

A jelly bean and a gold star for you again.

austranger wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 8:10pm:

The GG—and President—have the reserve powers. Kerr found a use for those.

Peter Freedman wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 8:45pm:


Why can't you see the world in black and white like any rational, sane person like Cods?

Why don't we have a president elected like this

We have had a debate about how the President is, or isn’t, appointed — so I won’t go back into that. The President has to be above politics, so how is he or she appointed if he or she is going to be above politics?

The community could nominate people who have received Australia’s highest medal – with the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) – for consideration by the Federal or their State government. Then, all the governments – Federal, State and Territories – with the support of all political parties, could nominate three or four people from those to be put forward. This group would then be put to an Australia wide vote of the people to elect six members to form a team of 5 years called the Presidential Select Committee, which would sit only when required, or if the President or the chairperson of the Presidential Select Committee ask for them to meet. It should be chaired by any one of the justices from the High Court. The committee would nominate three members with the Companion of the Order of Australia to Federal Parliament to become President of Australia.

The Prime Minister of the day would recommend one of them to parliament to become president, with the approval of the leaders of all political parties sitting in parliament at the time. It would then be put to the vote of both houses of parliament, with a supermajority of 2/3 to approve the candidate as president.

The President would be eligible for a maximum of two five-year terms, and would have to be nominated again by the Presidential Select Committee for the second term.

Thereafter, although the President could not be nominated again after having a second term, he or she would be able to be nominated to sit on the next Presidential Select Committee.

The President would carry out all the duties that the Governor-General does now, but would seek advice from the Presidential Select Committee on any appointments he or she makes and on any use of the reserve powers.

The Select Committee could do any background checks necessary for the people they nominated for President. The people sitting on the Select Committee would be denied the ability to stand for president.

The President could only be dismissed by a vote of the Presidential Select Committee. If the president dies or has to leave office for any reason, there are still two people already nominated to the parliament that are able to fill the rest of the term.

In the debate we had about the republic, there was nothing said about State Governors. The Presidential Select Committee would nominate 3 people with the Office of the Order of Australia (AO), which is our second highest medal, to each State Government for Vice President of that State and the same sort of appointment process would occur as for the President.

Politicians, ex-politicians and people who had been a member of any political party for the previous 10 years would be ineligible to stand for either the Presidential Select Committee or for the President or Vice President positions.

It’s true that the people cannot elect the president outright under this system — but instead involves electing the President in a roundabout way by nominating people with an AC and electing the Presidential Select Committee.