Ian Smithson
speaker
851 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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You look at me as if I would know.
No, he lived in Australia for a long time.
But yeah, anyway, it's an interesting idea of...
how you get around the arguments that are really detailed.
And the only way you can do that is to ask that one question, should Australia become a republic?
And you define what republic is, but you don't define how a head of state is part of it.
Because that's a secondary question.
And as soon as we do that again, we're screwed.
Charles has been around that whole time that she's been queen.
He was at her coronation.
He was three years old.
Yeah.
He was at a coronation.
So, he has been there as the Prince of Wales, the person who, you know, will inherit the crown for 70 years.
So, we've known him, but he was always the son.
Yeah.
Because if you look at the broad footage and the footage that came out after the Queen had died-
And, you know, up to the funeral, there were many occasions where he travelled from, he was at Balmoral when she died, he travelled from Scotland down to London and, you know, crowds outside Buckingham Palace when he drove in, he got out of the car and walked around shaking people's hands and talking to them.
The Queen probably would have done that as well.
But you just sort of think, no, he didn't go.
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