Bob Carr's silver bullet |
Written by Professor David Flint AM | |
Friday, 02 May 2014 | |
Bob Carr has revealed himself in The Australian 2 May 2014 as a true Turnbullian republican. (Don't miss the punch line below) The silver bullet to get a politicians republic is very easy, according to Bob. All you do is you put the same model people overwhelmingly rejected in 1999. You do what Malcolm Turnbull proposed before Kerry Jones and I made our proposal. Malcolm wanted to words deleted from the question: "President" and, believe it or not, "republic".
And how will this be achieved? Someone from the Coalition rather than Labor. Why, he laments, didn't John Howard do this? The answer Bob is that he honoured his oath of allegiance and believed it constitutional system and the role of the Crown in it. Just as the founder of the Lliberal Party Robert Gordon Menzies did. By the way, Bob rejects Bob Hawke's view that the next reign will result in a politicians' republic falling into the pollies laps. ' He quite likes Prince Charles who would make a "good monarch." He says he makes his republicanism wobble. "Who would we elected in his place? A general? A tennis star? " . How about some of those who have appeared before ICAC?
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