Quotes from Australia
"Homosexuals are 18 times more likely to involve minors in their sexual practices than heterosexuals are".
--Returned & Services League of Australia.
"The Crown is the one civic institution that is exactly as old as Australia. In this country, the Crown is older than parliament and older than the courts. The Crown came ashore with the First Fleet. It was with us at Gallipoli and the Kokoda Trail. It punished the perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre. It has changed and grown with us.
"In 1901 Australia lived under the British Crown and the Governor-General was an Englishman representing the British Government. Today, it's the Australian Crown and the Governor-General is an Australian representing the people in the Crown's name. Of course, the Crown is part of our British heritage - but we have made it our own just as we have made cricket, the common law and the English language our own. It has become an indigenous institution...
"Next to the papacy, the monarchy is the oldest continuing institution in western civilisation. It gives Australia a stake in a cultural tradition that is bigger than us and a claim on a great international figure in ways that add colour and ceremony to our national life. This is the third and possibly most significant argument for the Crown...
"The argument for the monarchy depends on respect for tradition, loyalty, continuity. The monarchy depends on a preference for things that have stood the test of time and an instinct that this generation is unlikely to be so much wiser than its predecessor. The monarchy depends on a sense of living history told and lovingly retold, not because people are dwelling in the past but because they understand that all our yesterdays shape all our tomorrows. Of course, it's hopelessly out of sympathy with the zeitgeist. But that reflects worse on these times than on the Crown.
"A monarch who reigns but does not rule; a dignitary famous for being rather than doing; a potentate who exercises no power; the paradoxes of the monarchy are reminders that life is more than the urgent simplicities of a budget bottom line, catchy slogan or logical conclusion. In its grand ceremonial, sense of mystery and even consoling fictions, the monarchy can be a numinous symbol of order and value in a difficult world."
--Tony Abbott M.P, 'Heartfelt reasons to be faithful', The Australian, 29th October 1999.
"INVESTIGATING further into what he calls "the media power base of finance capitalism", and its predatory instincts for destroying the traditional values in Western society, Turner (Col. Barry Turner - Control of the Communications Media and Conditioning of the Public Mind - On Target review, July/August 1992 - Ed ) notes how in the United Kingdom both the Murdoch and Maxwell (now thankful dead - Ed) strings of tabloid newspapers "have mounted lengthy and systematic attacks on the British Monarchy, through innuendo, malicious cartoons, indictive composition and skilful use of photographs".
Other sources confirm that Maxwell in particular, who was not of British origins, had arrived in his adopted country, with a dedicated antipathy towards the Royal House, and a resolve to hasten its demise. He was not alone, however, in directing the offensive from his propietorial power base within the Mirror Group of newspapers. None was more salacious in raking up palace scandals and royal embarrassments than The Sunday Times, which had been establishment-orientated before it joined the Murdoch media circus. At more analytical levels an ongoing debate had been instituted as to whether there was a future for the Monarchy at all.
Turner found it significant that in face of these scurrilous attacks, sometimes from the most obnoxious and subversive influences in the land, no comparable organ of public opinion had staged a "loyal counter-offensive". Neither had there been overt support or encouragement for the Royal House from government ministers or privy councillors, all of whom had taken the oath of loyalty.
A nation which remained overwhelmingly royalist in tradition and sentiment was being conditioned (This conditioning is complete in Australia, and almost complete in the U.K - Ed) to look upon its most lasting constitutional asset as a wasting and expensive liability. The Crown, which for all the occasional foibles, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies of its constituent members, had withstood many a shock as it provided stability and continuity down through centuries of change and invention, was facing its mightiest challenge yet from international capitalism that planned a future without national pride, ethnic culture or frontiers."
--'The Hidden Menace to World Peace', by James Gibb Stuart, Ossian Publishers(1993), P87.
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