Australians, Charles III has come to see you selflessly. Your sovereignty. We are all subjects of them.
Lessons. If you don't like that word, you can change it in the constitution. It would be better to wait for him to go home first. Because he didn't ask for it and might be a little embarrassed if you made a fuss about it.
And the saddest thing is, as you can't see it on his mother's face, the most impressive assertion of innocence. He often had to endure such behavior. He is, as the Queen never was, apparently our pilgrim companion, and although he need not pack his own bags, we all hope that his pilgrimage to the Antipodes leaves him in good health.
And if he is innocent, he is innocent. He is not an enemy of the Australian Republic. It is the enduring affection for the monarchy, especially among older Australians, that keeps the Australian monarchy alive. As enemies in the 1999 elections, they isolated us. “Good for them” would be a bad game if I didn't say it. As for Charles, he has rightly and honestly stated that it is up to us to solve the problem.
This humane behavior of King Charles and Queen Camilla makes the republican movement welcome the royal family and wish them well. They welcome the monarchy, but with a bit of Australian arrogance, it's a “farewell tour”. However, as they also stress, becoming a republic does not mean abandoning the Commonwealth. In fact, India, a nation of nearly 1.5 billion people, is a republic and a member state of the Commonwealth.
So we are not advocating a cultural revolution if we want to make a difference: not removing royal symbols from rural courts, not breaking coronation cups or mocking those who drank from them. But now we have a head of state who cannot speak for us in the best possible way on the international stage, nor know who we are or know our broader dreams and aspirations. If Charles tries to speak for us internationally, being a true head of state, he attracts the hostility of his own government in Westminster. If our Prime Minister speaks freely… he will criticize.
So we have few people who can do that. Governors General such as Sir Gelman Cowan, Sir William Dean, Dame Quentin Price and Sir Peter Cosgrove have spoken eloquently for us. But they are not our heads of state. They are vice presidents, vice presidents.
As a confused citizen, I would like to pose a question. According to the High Court ruling, sovereignty over the land was never relinquished, making Australia Aboriginal land. However, both the law and the High Court were unwilling to grant rights to the tribal people over the alienated lands. Except for the proto-fascists of media and politics, that was always clear. However, sovereignty is never granted.
Eddie Mabo, a horticulturist at James Cook University, investigated this particular question by visiting the library during lunch and afternoon. He knew that his ancestral plantation on Murray Island was crown land and he set out to prove that it was not. And after he died of cancer, the High Court ruled he wasn't.
So how do we continue to use the culturally powerful term crown land? I know it's a legal fiction, but isn't the time of Corona behind us?
The King is now entering his dominions in Australia, where the people have not agreed with him since the referendum long ago. He was the king of Australia, but that fact was not mentioned in many public forums or in the oath of allegiance of new citizens.
In the early '90s, the real picture was everywhere. You have no doubt that you lived under a British monarch. In modern Australia, the monarchy is an institution for which many officials dare not profess their love.
If Charles were our King, his name should be heard in the vows every time we toast! His face should be in all public places! At this point we pretend that we have no republic at heart. But alas, here it is! Will Karsi still go?
In any case, isn't it enough to say that Australia itself has all its problems, strengths and weaknesses? It's for me. Something humble, but mine. Meanwhile, King Charles traveled with ease. Thank you for reminding us of our relationship with the British Isles. My own business is the language with which we poor writers try to soften the Australian sun. And it never dies.
