…and the reaction of the Church:
From the ABC:
From SBS:
And from Channel Ten (Including the Speaker’s outburst)
…and the reaction of the Church:
From the ABC:
From SBS:
And from Channel Ten (Including the Speaker’s outburst)
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“Maior autem his est spes”
I propose that
1) We replace the absentee monarch of Australia (who is also the Monarch of Great Britain) with an elected Australian monarchy.
2) The elected monarch exactly replaces the current monarch in the current constition.
3) The elected monarch has exactly the same powers, duties and responsibilities as those of the current absentee monarch. All the monarch's functions are carried out by his/her personal representatives (as is currently the case): federally by the Governor General, and in the states by the State Governors.
4) The Governor General and the Governors continue to be selected and appointed as they currently are, that is, by the premier with the approval of the monarch.
5) The monarch is elected to sovereignty over Australia for life, but his/her sovereignty is strictly non-hereditary.
6) The elective body is the "college of electors" comprised of the state governors and federal governor general.
7) The election of the monarch must be a unanimous decision on the part of the college of electors.
"The fervant Romanists have always this point in their favour: that they are ready to believe. And they have a desire for the conversion of men which is honest in exactly inverse ration to the dishonesty of the means which they employ to produce it."
-- Anthony Trollope, "The Way We Live Now"
"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
-- Terry Pratchet, Hogfather, page 242
"I really don't think I'm arrogant, but I do get impatient with people who don't share with me the same humility in front of the facts."
--Richard Dawkins
Tragic and utterly senseless. And the brunt of what Mr. Brumby and Ms. Morand have achieved will be borne not by them but rather by women and the unborn for generations to come.
Lincoln said “I tremble for ym country when I remember that God is just”
Thank you for that quote, Matthias. I was looking for it last week for an article I was writing and couldn’t find it. You could have mentioned it earlier…
The ABC report incenses me. They effectively repeated the falsehood that 24 weeks is a cutoff. FYI, the day before – on the very morning of the vote – I received a response from my complaint to ABC Corporate Affairs about the very same lie that was on their 6 Sep report (the day of the protest march) They claim this:
The news reader then noted that under the Bill ‘..abortions under 24
weeks gestation would be removed from the Crimes Act and regulated like
any other medical procedure.” This is an accurate representation of one
aspect of the Bill. It has many other proposals, including, as you say,
that abortions over 24 weeks would have to be approved by two medical
practitioners after 24 weeks. Given that the story was concerned with
the rally, the ABC concludes that it was not necessary, nor possible
given the brevity of the piece, to go over all aspects of the Bill.
I’m currently in the process of writing a response to them, pointing out (amongst other issues that formed the complaint) that if “brevity” was the main concern, the words “under 24 weeks gestation” could have been removed and then made that statement accurate. My taxes fund this rubbish…