Ian Smithson
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851 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was never an intention, certainly in the Republican movement that was pushing in the 1990s, there was never an intention to have the president of the country as another level of government, which is what it is in the United States.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, if you're looking at the equivalent of the king...
that they're effectively rubber stamping things that government wants to do.
They're representing the country from a ceremonial point of view, but they're not an arm of government.
They don't have veto over laws.
They don't get to create laws.
They don't do any of that sort of stuff.
Whereas in the United States and some other countries that have an elected president, the president is effectively the single head of the highest level of government.
Yeah, see, I don't know, because if you're creating a monarchy, effectively, then you get one vote.
Because after that, assuming it's an inherited monarchy, as opposed to if we have a popular vote for president... Yeah.
You get it every four years or whatever.
And I think it would have to be a longer term.
I think it would have to be something like eight years so that it is not in the cycle of normal elections, so that it is removed from the election process.
Nobody would ever vote.
Barnsy.
It'd be Barnsy.
Nobody... Yeah, Jimmy Barns would be all right.
But again, depends on what you want.
He wasn't born in Australia.
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