Bad taste?
I'm not particularly a follower of any things royal, though it is hard to ignore sometimes. So Charles didn't eat the witchetty grub saying: 'The last time I was here I had raw seal - I'm older and wiser now.' He's going to want Australia to be a Commonwealth pretty soon I reckon, because he'll be up for Sashimi next time.
I particularly liked the journos heckling him outside the eco-toilet, saying, 'don't be shy' and 'don't forget to flush.' Nice to see that their humour involves shit and piss jokes like the rest of us, a nice follow on from the Hand of Keating. And I kinda liked this headline (mock, I'm assuming), sent to me by a friend:
CAMILLA TO WED CHARLES: declines offer from the Queen of a weekend in Paris with car and driver
Bad taste? Yes... but quite Australian.
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We all know Paris is trashy, but I don't think even she would stoop as low as Charlie.
Mind you, It was nice of her Madge to try to set them up..
But why on earth was he here - for what? And at what cost. It all seems totally pointless to me - and I'm quite a Royalist in England because they have a useful role to play when they behave themselves. They are so good for tourism!! And there are the long long historical links which I never like seeing brushed aside.
It first hit home when I was originally thinking about becoming an Aus citizen and I found I'd have to swear loyalty to the Queen. Excuse me - I never had to do that during all my years in England -why on earth should I do it to become Australian. So I didn't until I could swear my oath to the country instead.
During the Republican Referendum I asked Kerry Jones 'If it is so important to have the Queen as our Head of State, how come right now she is wining and dining the Chinese president on behalf of UK companies who are our competitors in world trade. I never got an answer to that one!
Has Charles been here?
The only royal things I've seen in the media are about Freddy and Mary.
Before Oz, his royalness was in Sri Lanka doing a 'tsunami tour'. I'm assuming that his travel agent said that getting a round the world flight would only be marginally more expensive than a return ticket. It's a shame he's too old to apply for the working holiday visa, because after Uluru he could have gone to Coogee and got a job in a bar and bunked up eight in a room with the other Brit backpackers.
According to that BBC article, only 33% of Australians wanted to retain the monarchy. We'll have to boosts that figure by ten or twenty percent before Howard calls another referendum.