Australia Update

by Pants of Righteousness 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  shepherdless

  Blues Brother, in answer to your questions:

  Providing that their understanding is correct and the Governor General confirms it...

  The GG will approve it. Essentially, under the Constitution, the GG approves whatever the Prime Minister tells the GG to approve. (There are exceptions in extreme circumstances, such as “the Dismissal” in 1975.)

  [Edit.. why does the Queen's representative have to get involved? It ought to be down to the Aus. Government ]

  There is a legal fiction that Australia is still ruled by Queen (or King) of England. Under the Constitution, the Queen appoints (or fires) the GG. In practice, the Aust Prime Minister appoints the GG, but the GG is often referred to as the “Queen’s representative.” The GG exercises the same powers in Aust, that the Queen exercises in UK. Just as the Queen stamps whatever law the UK Parliament sends to her, the GG stamps whatever law the Aust Parliament sends to him/her.

  In other words, loss of charity status is a “done deal”. Just a formality from here.
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  Anony Mous

  In regard the queen, yes the queen has ultimate authority over England and Australia and Canada and a ton of other areas of the world.

  The royals no longer exercise much of that authority other than ceremonially but it is within their rights to do so although they would risk a revolt and declarations of independence or the countries becoming a republic which is what happened in the United States, India and quite a few other former colonies.

  They still own all the land technically speaking and could reclaim it, the queen doesn’t need a passport or drivers license, you technically need permission to hunt many sorts of animals and there are a bunch of other bizarre rules which subjects have to follow, they control the army (allegiance for military officers is not to the flag or country but to the queen/king), there are a variety of free speech restrictions against the royals etc.
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  smiddy3

  I`m still waiting for this to happen and for it to be widely published.
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  wozza

  Me too ,suffer the little F***wit GB