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'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't care what it costs. The idea that one person has the right to rule over others is offensive whether it is symbolic or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

As far as offensiveness, for me it's about the same whether it's one person or a hundred 'representatives'. In either case they're all completely alienated from me and what decisions would actually help us.

But on a pragmatic level, we've seen what happened to Gough Whitlam so we know this isn't merely a symbolic monarchist structure. It has a real impact.