| Sneaky republican plan to shred our Australian Flag - later |
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| Written by Professor David Flint AM | |
| Monday, 09 June 2014 | |
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Once again, the republicans have let the cat out of the bag. They've learned their lesson of the 90s. There are two fundamental points. The first is sneaky - leave changing the flag until after they have achieved a politicians' republic.
If you have any doubt that this is and will always be the republicans' only serious argument, just look at the official Yes case in the 1999 referendum. It's not argued once there. It's argued nine times. The republicans laboured this as the referendum approached. By then they had abandoned all of their other arguments.
....the policy....
The chief media flag bearers of republicanism these days are The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. On 30 May 2014 they gave their aside a full page for their current chief Republican strategist Rhys Muldoon piece to editorialise on the gist of the current Republican campaign.This no doubt represents the views of the broadsheets.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/rhys-muldoons-man-about-town-its-time-to-be-free-of-the-commonwealth-20140605-zrszg.html#ixzz347mZz5vI |
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