Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "‘Zero material benefit’ to Australia becoming a republic" video.

Not having mad king Charley as head of state and governors general who ignore petitions of the people with regard to the monarch protecting their civil and human rights would be of great material benefit. In fact the monarchy has a clear choice in both regards, address those issues or rapidly become completely redundant. How an Australian Republic Constitution is written is the key issue otherwise we just replace one perversion with another and it continues to make a mockery of our democracy. I say this as an Australian who's extended family tree includes the royal family and the six people whose names are now the names of Australia capital cities, yeah all six of them. I figure I have a right to say what it means to be Australian, what our values truly are, mate.
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Why even have a single head of state? A free people can run their affairs as they see fit, using whatever structures and procedures actually work best for them. This is just an example but what if the head of state was a council that all got elected with a 70% majority and they were cycled in and out of the role in a way that continually refreshed its over all membership while having an overlap to ensure stability and knowledge transfer? A first in first out arrangement but each serving a defined number of years.
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@Aaronwhatnow That is not entirely true, go and research the ways that the monarch can influence Australian legislative process.
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@chandlerbingbong Who can talk to her is very tightly controlled, so is she anything but a figurehead these days? If others can control what information gets to her then they control her.
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Because?
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@stevencooper3202 We haven't even discussed what all the possibilities are let alone the pros and cons, and you just disqualified yourself for that dialogue.
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@Aaronwhatnow Because it does. Go and do some research.
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@Luum81 Yeah six people. I fixed it, Perth is named after the part of Scotland when my ancestors (Picts) are from and it was in Perth Australia that my first Australian resident ancestors landed, off a ship called the Lotus. I don't have east coast convict heritage, unlike the PM Scott Morrison who is descended from William Roberts, a thief and a liar.
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@Luum81 I just checked, even Perth is named indirectly after a distant family member! Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir George Murray. So that is 7/7, just not literally.
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@Luum81 Yes I took care of that. Go over to Geni, if you are a member you can look me up. I am also related to +80% of the men who participated in the Apollo space program. There is a big "family" of perhaps a few tens of thousands of people who are all interconnected through birth or marriage who are responsible for so much of recorded history over the last 500 years. It is bizarre but true.
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@Luum81 I use the family tree info to motivate my 5 kids to engage more with the topic of history, if you had family there at recorded events then you are more likely to show interest in it and study harder.
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@Aaronwhatnow #naive
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@Alfred Weber Read my other comments, I make it very clear what we currently lack. I am not writing it all again for your convenience.
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