Listening to Stephen Fry rabbit on on QI while doing some late night blogging. They were talking about “666”, the “number of the beast” (Revelation 13:18), and Fry quickly raced off the following:
$665.95 = the retail price of the Beast
25.8069758… = the root of all evil
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia = the fear of the Number of the Beast
Looking for these on the Internet found a number of sites, including this one, which give a whole list of them.
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.
