Ian Smithson
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851 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
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Google Prince Harry and... Harry's mother's bodyguard.
But they're never going to- Nobody is ever going to believe that that has been done.
Oh, my God.
Anyway.
Yeah.
But yeah, going back to the Republican movement, one of the challenges I think that we have in the Republican movement in Australia is that I think... I honestly believe that the majority, and it might only be a small majority in Australia, of people believe that we should drop the royal family as our heads of state.
But we have the extremist Republicans whose version of this, the way they push it is to say...
Yeah, Charles is a complete ratbag.
He's a complete waste of time.
This is our opportunity.
He'll never be a good king.
This is our opportunity to get away from it.
And by the way, all the royal family are completely hopeless.
That's never going to win people over.
People who are sitting on the fence are going to be offended by that.
It should be saying Australia's constitution needs to be changed so that we don't have the royal family of another country as our head of state.
It's got nothing to do with whether they are legitimate, whether the royals are legitimate people or anything else.
It's just...
And then there is the argument about what sort of republic should we be.
Interestingly, the one version of a republic that we haven't ever examined in Australia is why do we need a head of state at all?
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