Should Australia become a Republic?

[MoreCoffee]

I'm sorry. I cannot contain myself. A Canadian on christian chat once posted this. Noone liked it, except me lol.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZE0TuKTpo4

I want a national igloo!

:smirk:

USA people can't really be that silly

 

[Albion]

Why does Australia need to be a republic anyway or have a queen? They only have kangaroos living there.

Hey... no bad word about Trudeau.

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Nice pic of the apprentice Prime Minister taken moments after he'd thrown some street clothes over his Superman PJs.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I want a national igloo!

:smirk:

USA people can't really be that silly

Pound to a penny this lot was planted, but they were funny.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I found something that those interested in Australian republicanism might be interested in.. it's got a decent history link.. http://www.republic.org.au/. I'd sign up for the email link, but as an American, I don't see what good I could do. I'm already living in a Republic.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I found something that those interested in Australian republicanism might be interested in.. it's got a decent history link.. http://www.republic.org.au/. I'd sign up for the email link, but as an American, I don't see what good I could do. I'm already living in a Republic.

You could enjoy reading about Australia.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

You could enjoy reading about Australia.

Good enough for me.. I'm on their list.

 

[Imalive]

My family lives in Tasmania. My aunt always sent me koala's.

 

[MoreCoffee]

My family lives in Tasmania. My aunt always sent me koala's.

You could move to Tasmania - then you would not need to speak Dutch anymore!

:smirk:

 

[Imalive]

You could move to Tasmania - then you would not need to speak Dutch anymore!

:smirk:

They had these Dutch speaking groups there, lol for the oldies.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

You could move to Tasmania - then you would not need to speak Dutch anymore!

:smirk:

Okay, okay, wait a minute. I thought Imalive was ethnically Dutch? She's Australian? So people from places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are moving out to Europe? Or maybe her people in Australia are of Dutch descent living in Tasmania. Confusing the heck out of me. I though Europe was a place people moved away from ( unless they're from Turkey or Central Asia), rather than a migration point for people to move to.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Okay, okay, wait a minute. I thought Imalive was ethnically Dutch? She's Australian? So people from places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are moving out to Europe? Or maybe her people in Australia are of Dutch descent living in Tasmania. Confusing the heck out of me. I though Europe was a place people moved away from ( unless they're from Turkey or Central Asia), rather than a migration point for people to move to.

imalive is a clever Dutch lady, as far as I know she is not from Australia.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

imalive is a clever Dutch lady, as far as I know she is not from Australia.

Right, then part of her family moved out of the Netherlands to settle in Tasmania. That was a weird near- paradigm shift for a minute.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Right, then part of her family moved out of the Netherlands to settle in Tasmania. That was a weird near- paradigm shift for a minute.

I do know Australians who have moved to European lands.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I do know Australians who have moved to European lands.

Yeah, I know an American guy who moved to Spain with his wife and her family. Her family was originally from that area, though, so I guess it's natural that they would move back out there for whatever reason.

 

[Imalive]

Okay, okay, wait a minute. I thought Imalive was ethnically Dutch? She's Australian? So people from places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are moving out to Europe? Or maybe her people in Australia are of Dutch descent living in Tasmania. Confusing the heck out of me. I though Europe was a place people moved away from ( unless they're from Turkey or Central Asia), rather than a migration point for people to move to.

No I'm Dutch. I live in Holland, but Dutch sisters from my mother went to Tasmania and Canada and a brother from my dad went to America.
Tasmania is discovered by a Dutch guy, Abel Tasman. New Zealand is Nieuw Zeeland, named after our province.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

No I'm Dutch. I live in Holland, but Dutch sisters from my mother went to Tasmania and Canada and a brother from my dad went to America.
Tasmania is discovered by a Dutch guy, Abel Tasman. New Zealand is Nieuw Zeeland, named after our province.

Thanks, sorry. I got confused there for a second.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

The world has gotten smaller. I guess some people from colonized lands would for various reasons go to places like Europe and Asia to make more advantageous lives for themselves than what they would possibly know at home.

 

[MoreCoffee]

The world has gotten smaller. I guess some people from colonized lands would for various reasons go to places like Europe and Asia to make more advantageous lives for themselves than what they would possibly know at home.

Europe is pretty and the west has high living standards.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Europe is pretty and the west has high living standards.

It does. I just thought that international travel and migrations might be cheaper ( and easier) for Europeans than for those of us in the Western Hemisphere, so they'd be more likely to take advantage of the travel opportunities that would afford them.

 

[MoreCoffee]

It does. I just thought that international travel and migrations might be cheaper ( and easier) for Europeans than for those of us in the Western Hemisphere, so they'd be more likely to take advantage of the travel opportunities that would afford them.

I think that the costs are even both ways.