Ian Smithson
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851 appearances
2 recordings
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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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Certainly Charles, one of the first things he did when he ascended to the monarchy was, as his mother had done beforehand, is signed over the income from the royal estates to the government.
Yeah.
Now, they still get a salary, and it's quite a considerable salary.
I have no idea what it is, but they're no longer, you know, they notionally own the royal estates, but they're not making money out of it.
The government makes money out of it.
those estates.
And so, you know, that idea of- and certainly that's a very recent thing.
No, I think it would have been the royal family.
Yeah.
Because in the end, the government can't put pressure on them to do anything.
The government can, you know, can enact laws, but when it affects the royal family, the monarch has to sign off on those.
Well, the key event, if you're talking about 1975, the sacking of the government, and that was notionally agreed to by the Queen, but it was the Governor-General who is the Queen's representative and ironically is recommended by the Prime Minister to the Queen to appoint them.
So they're appointed by the Queen, but the recommendation comes from the Prime Minister at the time.
And so, yes, there was a...
a royal representative who changed the government in this country.
It's the only time it's ever happened in Australia.
Other than that, there's... Royal visits were always popular when I was a child.
The Queen came to Australia, I think, 14 times or something.
Animal.
Over that period of time.
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