Pete Smissen
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It's these people are effectively locked in for life, this family.
Yes, exactly.
For forever, right?
Effectively now as the royal family.
And they don't do anything besides get, you know, income from their huge land titles and everything and probably a slice of taxes.
Whose idea do you think that was?
Do you think the royal family were like, we should probably do this or the government put pressure on them?
Man.
Well, moving on to making Australia a republic or not, how much, at least in your time too, when you were younger, did the royal family impact life in Australia?
Because there was sort of one key event and I think that's about really it, right?
That's how long she was reigning for.
Isn't that crazy?
This would have been like, what, the paper and wooden planes back then, the biplanes, right?
Not quite.
Do you want to explain what white-anted means?
Everyone's like, this is my favourite.
I want a Granny Smith.
I want that one.
I'd rather have an orange and an apple.
Yeah, that's it.