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Divide and Rule
The inside story of the battle the republicans lost and the war the monarchists know is far from over.DEBBIE WHITMONT, REPORTER: It's nearly half a century since Australia first enthusiastically welcomed a young Queen Elizabeth.
In just over a week, she'll be back -- for her 13th visit.
PHIL CLEARY, DIRECT ELECTION REPUBLICAN: To think that you could resurrect the monarchy in 2000 or 2001 is an act of lunacy, seriously.
It is over.
PETER COSTELLO, DEPUTY LEADER, LIBERAL PARTY: I think the -- the temper of the Australian public is now republican.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: But four months ago, just over half of Australia voted AGAINST a republic.
KERRY JONES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AUSTRALIANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: In political terms it was a landslide -- the 'No' vote was a landslide.
73 per cent of federal electorates voted 'No'. All States voted 'No'.
DAVID ELLIOTT, ACM CAMPAIGN MANAGER: At the very least, we've bought the monarchy 10, 20, 50 years, I think.
PROF GREG CRAVEN, REPUBLICAN: I think that's a little bit like Hitler buying time in the bunker, when the Russian army comes along.
He bought time -- it was about three days.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Tonight on Four Corners, 'Divide and Rule' -- the inside story of the battle the republicans lost and the war the monarchists know is far from over.
ANTONY GREEN TABULATING RESULTS, ABC ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE: And we're seeing a 'Yes' vote of 33.8 per cent against a 'No' of 66.2 per cent.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: After nearly a decade of debate, the result took little more than an hour.
DAVID ELLIOTT: When we got the polling booth in Claymore, in south-western Sydney, one of the lowest socioeconomic groups in Australia -- when it came through that we'd won that booth two votes to one, I thought, "No, this is it."
Once I knew we'd won western Sydney, I knew we'd won.
KERRY O'BRIEN ON THE ABC: Today Australia decided 'No' to the idea of becoming a republic.
DAVID ELLIOTT: Oh, it was euphoric.
I mean, it was fantastic.
You know, you can imagine it's the grand final, you're playing first reserve for a Rugby League team, you're called in in the last 10 minutes, you're four points behind and you score the winning try.
And you know, and it's converted.
I mean, that's -- that's how it felt.
MALCOLM TURNBULL, REPUBLICAN GATHERING: Republicans, don't be downhearted.
Don't be downhearted.
This is heartbreaking, I know.
GREG BARNS, ARM CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I feel a great sense of bitterness, personal bitterness, against some people who were involved in this campaign -- on the other side in this campaign.
My problem with my opponents was, for some of them, it was a game -- it was just like a game of football.
What was at stake here and what is at stake here is the soul of the nation and what this nation sees itself as.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Australia's republic debate began even before Federation.
But it wasn't until 1995 that a prime minister launched it onto the national agenda.
PAUL KEATING, 1995: Many may regret the prospect of change, but recognise that sooner or later we must have an Australian as our head of state.
That one small step would make Australia a republic.
ANDREW ROBB, FORMER DIRECTOR LIBERAL PARTY, CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN: Well, see, there's a lot of history, I mean, with Paul Keating's involvement in the issue, um -- and he did make it party political.
I mean, I think one of the things that drove Paul Keating was that he knew it was a very divisive issue for the conservative side of politics, and he was always alert to a political opportunity.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: I'll give Paul Keating the benefit of the doubt -- I think he does believe in --
in us being a republic, but I also do think that he, quite skilfully, and, I'd have to say, exploited the issue, in the early 1990s, along with a number of other issues to --
..in pursuit of the objective of dividing the Federal Coalition -- the Liberal and National parties.
There's no doubt about that.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: For the Coalition, the republic was always a difficult issue.
In opposition, they promised a constitutional convention.
Later, as leader, self-avowed monarchist John Howard inherited that promise.
As Prime Minister, a reluctant Howard agreed to hold a constitutional convention.
If the convention came up with what the Prime Minister described as "clear support" for a particular republican model, there would be a referendum.
MALCOLM TURNBULL, CHAIR, AUSTRALIAN REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT: Well, we knew the process was flawed right from the start.
I mean, the constitutional convention was designed, uh --
to harm the republican cause.
It wasn't --
The convention itself was not even democratically elected.
Only half of its delegates were elected by the people.
It was -- it was calculated to highlight differences and enable, you know, monarchists to exploit differences between republicans.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: I mean, if they'd felt that it was, you know, so bad and such a set-up, they wouldn't have attended.
And they had that right at every point -- they could've said, "We don't like the way this is going.
"We don't think this is fair.
We're not participating."
Or "We're not running candidates "in the election or whatever it is."
At no stage did that happen.
I think on the evidence, they clearly supported the process.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, it was the only show in town.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The constitutional convention was held in February 1998.
KARIN SOWADA, AUSTRALIAN REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT: It was a great sense of occasion, and I remember walking across the lawn in front of Old Parliament House, and we walked up the stairs, and there were journalists milling around.
There were officials, there were television cameras, there were the great and good of Australia, and suddenly WE were part of it.
PHIL CLEARY: There was a touch of, um --
the surreal about the convention.
It was a beautiful thing in a way.
It brought together a lot of quirky people.
It was diverse.
It was exceedingly hot, and I think that the heat got to everyone.
It was so hot that I reckon in the end people lost sense of what Australian people thought about the republic.
MOIRA RAYNOR, DIRECT ELECTIONIST: I went there to try and get a very disparate group talking about people's rights, their protection of them in the constitution and government accountability, and all the big issues that I know people care passionately about.
I expected it to be an interesting, educative experience.
I actually did not expect the bun fight that we got -- anything like it.
TED MACK, DIRECT ELECTIONIST: It was set up by the Government and it was designed to fail.
That's why it wasn't structured, and, um -- there was no debate about the constitution at the constitutional convention.
MOIRA RAYNOR: I was elected with Tim Costello as part of the Real Republic team and we met just before it started, and Tim excused himself and came back walking, striding along, with Malcolm Turnbull, and they'd been to the loo together.
And he said he'd learned something very interesting about tactics from Malcolm at the pissoire.
And at that point, I thought, "Hang on, it's going to be that sort of a convention.
"Some are going to get talked to and some aren't.
"And there are some places a girl just can't go."
TIM COSTELLO, DIRECT ELECTIONIST: Well, Moira -- if she believes something strong enough, would not stay out of any place if she -- if she thought she should be there.
No, I can assure you that there were no deals done there.
TED MACK: There were all sorts of corridor meetings going on, threats were being made to people, inducements were being made to people.
Minders were set up for some of the people who really didn't know what it was all about -- they had regular minders.
And they probably didn't know that they had minders, they just had this friendly voice in their ear just before every vote was taken.
MOIRA RAYNOR: See, there were three conventions going on.
There was the one on television, that everyone saw.
There was a resolutions group which was representative, really, of the machinations that worked the third one, which was the backroom deals that were being done.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Of the 152 delegates, nearly two-thirds were republicans.
Nearly half of them were loosely focused around some kind of constitutional reform.
The other half, from the Australian Republican Movement or ARM, supported a president chosen by Parliament.
KARIN SOWADA: We'd had a number of meetings in the lead-up to the convention, and I think, overall, we went into the convention as the best-organised group -- the group who had thought through a model in -- in detail and -- and we were ready to start talking with others.
MOIRA RAYNOR: The day before the non-ARM republicans met to see where our common ground was, and after a day of talking, I started to think, "I'm not too sure where our common ground is," 'cause some were there to democratise the constitution, some wanted to directly elect a certain kind of president and other others, and everyone was talking over everyone else and I thought we're a bit of a rabble here.
KARIN SOWADA: The problem that the direct electionists had is that they -- they were, uh --
they were not unified.
There were a variety of different direct election models.
MOIRA RAYNOR: We would have been much more effective if we had had a platform, but you couldn't get it in two days, and that was actually when it mattered.
On -- by the second day if we weren't voting en bloc, um -- we were going to lose the most important votes, and we did.
TIM COSTELLO: The second day of the convention, the Australian Republican Movement got a little bit too smart in their Machiavellian power plays.
They said, "We can burn off all these direct electionists "early in the day."
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Most people agreed that a president could not be directly elected unless his or her powers were defined or codified.
On day 2, in a series of votes, the ARM had codification taken off the agenda.
The question of direct election was struck out with it.
KARIN SOWADA: We took a decision, essentially, on the day, to completely shut down the codification option.
KERRY JONES: The ARM wanted to knock out the popularly elected delegates.
I think they actually would have preferred to see them leave the convention.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Those who favoured direct election?
KERRY JONES: That's right.
And they very nearly did leave.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: I guess what we were trying to do was to get the convention to focus on what was achievable.
In other words, narrow the frame of debate down to the issues that could realistically emerge or result in a, you know, a model, or a formula coming out of the convention.
And I think it's fair to say that we were too precipitous in that, you know, but I mean, that was --
there it is.
PHIL CLEARY: Malcolm, in a way, was caught between a rock and a hard place.
He was trying to appease the Prime Minister.
He wanted a model acceptable to the Prime Minister and to do that he had to dragoon his people, and he did.
So there were a lot of people within the ARM who would've entertained a direct election model, no question about it, but they were never allowed to.
They had to guillotine any debate and, uh -- just destroy the direct election question.
KARIN SOWADA: When that vote occurred, they went ballistic, and there were catcalls and, you know, suddenly a lot of bad blood was spilled on the floor of the convention.
So they recognised instantly how important this particular vote was.
And, as I recall it, there were people who, literally, raced out of the chamber in front of television crews, and, you know, you thought the whole world was going to cave in at that point.
PAUL TULLY, DIRECT ELECTIONIST, TO CAMERA: If a referendum is put to the people and it's defeated, it simply be on the head of Malcolm Turnbull.
MOIRA RAYNOR: I don't think they realised how angry they'd made us.
They could've killed it there and then.
They really could have killed the convention there and then, because there were people who were going to say, "Stuff it," and go home.
And it would have looked --
..the Prime Minister would have looked a complete fool.
KARIN SOWADA: It got very personal.
I was -- I was very shocked at how personal it got.
We were labelled the 'Turnbullies'.
We were labelled all sort of things, and, you know, here was I and other people who were --
..who were there to try and generate a result that would be good for Australia.
Suddenly it had turned into this huge political --
political bun fight.
MOIRA RAYNOR: We actually discussed walking out at that point.
And there were lots of other people who agreed and quite a few who said, "Let's give it a miss."
But in the end we stayed.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Was there room for compromise?
PHIL CLEARY: Yeah, I suppose there was.
But it had to be something that revolved around the right of people to elect the president.
Now, uh -- that was the key issue.
And as I answer your question, I'm thinking, "Well, I don't know what that exactly means."
MOIRA RAYNOR: That's what formed the group of people who became known as the Direct Election Republicans.
That's what we could rally around, and, as far as we could, at least agree on voting and trying to negotiate changes.
If we'd been better organised, it wouldn't have happened like that.
But what can you expect from a group of people from a whole range of areas who didn't have an organisation, as the ARM did?
DEBBIE WHITMONT: You rallied around your distrust of the ARM?
MOIRA RAYNOR: I'm afraid we did.
They could have won us over.
It just struck me constantly -- then and subsequently.
TED MACK: I guess from my political experience I knew that the whole issue was over and could see clearly that what the convention was about, it was about either rubber-stamping or not the model of a republic proposed by the Australian Republican Movement.
TIM COSTELLO: The ARM saw that the republican movement was now bitterly split.
The direct electionists felt betrayed and our convention was over, and goodnight, and how could they actually ever carry us with them.
And so they said, "Help, we've misjudged this."
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Later, direct election did go back on the agenda.
But the bad blood between republicans remained.
And the monarchists saw its significance.
DAVID ELLIOTT: From as early as the Con Con, we saw that republicans were going to be facing a tall order to get a particular model up.
KERRY JONES: If you're not united amongst your own ranks, how on earth are you going to win a campaign if all your advocates are squabbling about basic details?
How on earth could you hope to win a political election?
And that, of course, was absolutely apparent and is still apparent.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: And nowhere was the tension more apparent than in one of the convention's key subcommittees -- the Resolutions Group, chaired by Barry Jones.
BARRY JONES: I must say, too, that the experience as Chairman of the Resolutions Group was something I will never forget.
It'll certainly be worth a chapter in the memoirs!
MOIRA RAYNOR: It was supposed to be, in the end, by vote, a gender-balanced group of people whose job it was to get the various recommendations and resolutions passed during the day into a comprehensible form at the end of the day to be voted on the following day.
What it turned into, of course, was -- well, something different.
Like a dysfunctional family, I suppose.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: I don't think there can be too much doubt about this.
I mean, you know, Moira Raynor and Pat O'Shane were very hostile and very aggressive, took a particular dislike to Gareth Evans and, I think, almost as equal a dislike to me, and the meetings were very stressed.
MOIRA RAYNOR: The first two or three days of the Resolutions Group were a bit uproarious, to put it mildly.
Gareth had fallen into the habit, which I'm sure he thought was humorous, of blowing kisses in my direction.
He'd go --
(Blows kisses) And look, I put up with it for two days -- didn't say anything.
And the third day when there was quite an interesting, hot discussion going on, he did it and I said to Barry, "Look, he's blowing kisses at me.
"He shouldn't do it.
"It's completely inappropriate.
"I'd like you to order him to stop it."
MALCOLM TURNBULL: And George Pell -- the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne -- was on this committee.
And Moira said to George, "Well, George, how would you feel if Gareth blew you a kiss?
"Would you like that if Gareth blew you a kiss?"
To which George said very quietly, he said, "Moira, I'd be flattered.
"I'd be surprised, but I'd be flattered."
DEBBIE WHITMONT: With only one day to go, the ARM struggled to broker a compromise between radical and conservative republicans.
It suggested the public could play a role in choosing the president via a community-based panel which it called the 'nominations committee'.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: We were seeking to get votes both from the left, if you like -- the direct electionist group -- and also from --
And to hang onto votes from conservative republicans that were sceptical about that kind of thing.
And you know, it was like --
I was in the position of just as I got a few more bales onto my cart from the right, a few of the bales from the left would fall off, and so forth.
JULIE BISHOP, NON-ALIGNED DELEGATE: We had a meeting in Malcolm Turnbull's room.
It was after a dinner where people had tried to nut out some sort of compromise -- a sensible compromise.
The session must have gone to 3am, later.
Malcolm was sitting at his PC, his little laptop, typing out resolutions and wording and we'd say, "No, I don't think that will work," or, "Take that into account," and I must have had a couple of hours sleep because I got up very early the next morning, as in about three hours later, and started ringing around.
PROF GREG CRAVEN: And what happened, I think, was that it was one of those classic political or semi-political meetings where everybody left the room thinking that something slightly different had been agreed.
We felt there had been something of an agreement that we could go off and try and come to a further agreement, with key conservative figures like Richard Court and Peter Costello.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Treasurer Peter Costello had already supported a conservative republic.
But he hadn't gone so far as to support the ARM.
Even a watered down nominations committee put his support out of the question.
PETER COSTELLO: Look, my view was that the nominations procedure wouldn't add to the proposal in the slightest.
I said that at the time.
I said, "I don't think this is going to meet "the objections of the direct electionists "and it will become a point of attack for the status quo people."
I mean, this was my point -- that it was neither fish nor fowl.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Where I was disappointed was that I had, in effect, made concessions to them in the course of that long night of negotiation.
Then I discovered that the conservatives weren't there anyway and wanted even more concessions.
That's when I had to stand up to them and say, "Look, I'm really sorry."
PROF GREG CRAVEN: I certainly think it's possible that, if agreement had been reached, that you would have had a sudden change of a whole series of votes.
And if you'd had people like Peter Costello switching en bloc behind the model, not only I think would it have got an absolute majority of votes, but you might then have had other waverers actually coming across.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The convention's two most crucial votes came late in the afternoon on the last day.
The first was whether Australia should become a republic.
BARRY JONES AT CONVENTION: The time has come for the question to be answered, "That this convention supports, in principle, "Australia becoming a republic."
Would those in favour of the motion please rise so that the tellers can collect their, uh --
All those in opposition to the proposition, please stand.
'No' -- 52.
'Yes' -- 89.
Abstentions -- 11.
MOIRA RAYNOR: Right at the end of the convention was a terrific high point.
You had to be there to feel it.
But when the vote was taken on whether Australia should be a republic and there was a resounding 'yes', not just from us but cheers from the public gallery and out in the King's Hall, it really was an extraordinary moment and an enormous feeling of togetherness, if you like.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The next -- and more difficult -- question was whether the convention supported the ARM model -- a republic with a president chosen by Parliament.
BARRY JONES: "This convention supports the adoption "of a republican system of government "on the bipartisan appointment of a president model, "in preference to there being no change to the constitution."
The result is, 'for' -- 73, 'against' -- 57, abstentions -- 22.
PAUL TULLY: I have a point of order and I wish to come up and speak to it formally, please.
I'd like to refer to Joske's 'Law and Procedures at Meetings in Australia'.
"Where a majority of those present is required, "a motion may be defeated "by a number of those present abstaining from voting."
BARRY JONES: I'm very deeply grateful for Councillor Tully for his advice on a number of matters, but I draw his attention to Joske's 'Law and Proceedings at Meetings in Australia' -- eighth edition.
It says, "Rules of a body "may prescribe a particular method of voting "and may abrogate the common law method "which requires merely a majority of votes."
I rest my case.
It has been passed by a majority of votes.
PAUL TULLY: I do dissent from your ruling, sir.
TED MACK: The Prime Minister, in my view, had anticipated it and was on his feet instantly the vote was taken with a big smile saying that this is the clear view of the convention and, of course, in his own head, "I know it's going to fail."
PHIL CLEARY: If you look back at when that resolution was accepted by the chair and look at John Howard's response, therein you see the real story.
John Howard knew that he had a model that was destined to failure.
He literally raced to the lectern to tell the people of Australia that he would do the democratic thing and put this to them.
There'd be no plebiscite.
It'd be that resolution.
The Malcolm Turnbull resolution was going to the people by hook or by crook, and it did.
JOHN HOWARD ADDRESSING CONVENTION: Amongst the republican models, the one that just got 73 votes is clearly preferred.
It would be a travesty in commonsense terms of Australian democracy for that proposition not to be put to the Australian people.
KERRY JONES: The fact that they couldn't get majority support on the floor after two weeks for their model, the fact that they compromised, and wheeled and dealed and met in corridors and, you know, acted like politicians, you know, to us said, "This is going to be very much to their detriment "in running a campaign."
And of course it was.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: The Australian Republican Movement had a huge win at the convention.
They got their model up.
They therefore automatically had the right to have their model put to the Australian people.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, we were --
yeah, we were pleased.
I mean, we'd got out of there with a result and we were on the next step.
But I was never --
you know, I wasn't ecstatic.
I mean, I realised that the hardest or the biggest hurdle was yet to come.
TIM COSTELLO: The Prime Minister had a much easier case to run, saying no change.
"Steady the horses."
However, there's no doubt that he divided very cleverly the republican movement.
He had us fighting, and he reaped the spoils of that fight.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Soon after the convention, in an unprecedented move for a referendum, the Government decided to fund the arguments for and against the republic.
It appointed an official Yes committee and an official No committee.
And the No committee included key direct electionists.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: I think frankly what Mack and Cleary did was probably the most irresponsible, because what they did was join forces with people who wanted no republic at all and held out a false promise of another kind of republic.
PHIL CLEARY: Well, look, let me be bold and say -- bold as brass maybe -- we could easily argue that we used the monarchists, couldn't we?
We, the direct electionists, a smallish group, but with the support of the people, used the monarchists publicly.
The whole debate up until November 6 was about the direct election.
Everyone focused on the direct election.
Now, I could be smug and say we were pretty smart about that.
PROF GREG CRAVEN: I think the key strategy of the whole referendum from the No case was to divide and conquer the republican movement by splitting off direct election sentiment, and critically to convince direct electionists that if the referendum went down, what would come to them was not the monarchy, but a directly elected republic.
That, of course, was one of the greatest confidence tricks in Australian history and possibly the greatest one that ever worked.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: By October 1999, both sides were campaigning in earnest.
GREG BARNS: "Don't mention the Queen.
Don't mention the Queen."
I mean, that's what their campaign was about.
Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy -- just remember, that's the name.
Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, and yet we don't want to talk about it.
DAVID ELLIOTT: We did have traditional monarchists involved in the ACM.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Pro-Queen monarchists.
DAVID ELLIOTT: They were there. They were certainly there.
But I think that most of them were politically astute enough to know how we were going to win this campaign and it wasn't going to be telling everybody that the Queen's a nice lady.
KERRY JONES, ELECTION MEETING: Its theme is, 'A People's Protest', and it incorporates the slogan, "Vote 'No' to the Politicians' -- " MALCOLM TURNBULL, ELECTION MEETING: If we vote 'No', the only consequence is that our next head of state will be King Charles III.
Nothing will change.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The republicans and the monarchists had one thing in common.
Both their campaign managers belonged to the Liberal Party.
And both worked in the past for senior government ministers.
DAVID ELLIOTT: Greg and I have worked on the same side of politics all our lives.
But it wasn't until about a month before the election that we actually met each other.
And we hit it off straightaway.
GREG BARNS: When I met him -- Actually I quite like him on a personal level.
But the problem with David is that I think everything's just a game. You know, it's all military tactics.
Captain Elliott in the Army Reserve playing war games.
DAVID ELLIOTT: To win a political campaign you have to, you know, cut the legs off the enemy.
You've got to cut the legs off the opposition.
You've got to take away their arguments.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Who would you say were the most helpful people to your side of the argument?
DAVID ELLIOTT: Personally or politically?
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Politically I guess, yeah.
DAVID ELLIOTT: Politically I think Nick Minchin and Tony Abbott and Bronwyn Bishop were three of the most -- the smartest operators.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: In the campaign, how would you describe your role?
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: Minimalist. I did not play much of a role at all.
KERRY JONES: Senator Nick Minchin, certainly. He was on the core strategy group, gave me absolutely core advice.
Tony Abbott, as you know, leading supporter.
DAVID ELLIOTT: We spent our entire campaign just caning politicians.
It was marvellous fun.
Our winning slogan was "Say No to the Politicians' Republic".
I think that that typified the mood of the electorate and it had those two evil words in it -- 'politician' and 'republic'.
ANDREW ROBB: It was a powerful campaign message.
It was the powerful campaign message.
I mean, I think for a lot of people they didn't go beyond the fact that it was a politicians' republic.
I mean, that was all that needed to be said, really.
TONY ABBOTT, MONARCHIST: My view was that the politicians already pick the prime minister.
Why should we pick the president as well?
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The idea behind that -- what it was conveying was "Don't trust politicians for this task," wasn't it?
TONY ABBOTT: No, no, the idea is that politicians have quite enough power already, we have quite enough on our plate already and this is not, in my view, an appropriate thing for us to be doing.
PETER COSTELLO: Well, what disturbs me is I've seen oppositions try and harness distrust before.
I've never seen governments trying to harness distrust in political leadership because it's obviously self-undermining.
Obviously self-undermining.
And that's why I think people that were prepared to do that should have a bit of a think about the tactic.
And obviously it puts them in a difficult position that will be played back to them in election campaigns.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: Well, I think it's an exaggeration to assert that those who support the No case were saying, you know, you can never trust a politician.
That's an exaggeration purported by the republicans.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: But there were leaflets saying --
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: And what was being said --
well, what was being said was the politicians who sit in Parliament should not have --
should not be given the right to choose Australia's head of state.
That's a perfectly legitimate argument to put.
KERRY JONES: Six weeks out it could've gone either way.
I had consistently said to our people the Yes case has got a core 30 per cent of people there who are not going to move.
They don't wanna hear any argument, they're not gonna move -- the intellectuals.
We've got core solid 30-35 people who are not gonna move.
So the rest of the people in Australia are the people who've gotta make up their mind and they will make the decision, they will decide the vote.
DAVID ELLIOTT: If we were going to win NSW we had to win western Sydney.
Now we thought we'd win the bush, we thought we'd win regional NSW, we knew we'd lose the North Shore and the eastern suburbs, because the campaign, the republican campaign, you know, had its genesis in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
So we had to win western Sydney.
And to do that we virtually had to belittle the eastern suburbs.
We really had to come very, very, very close to just making them look comical.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: That's where the elitist argument came in.
DAVID ELLIOTT: Which is why we just kept on calling them elitists.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Did you find that somewhat ironic, given that you were supporting a somewhat elitist institution?
DAVID ELLIOTT: Absolutely. It was ironic.
Politically it was extremely ironic.
GREG BARNS: I always thought it was very difficult.
I mean, constitutional reform is very difficult in this country and it's very difficult if you've got a Prime Minister who's not supporting your case.
I think I was surprised about the extent to which the Prime Minister would actively undermine the Yes case, even though he said he would be hands-off.
It was quite obvious in the last two weeks of the campaign that he was campaigning as hard as anyone.
JOHN HOWARD SPEAKING ON RADIO: Well, I think this is the right time.
I have an obligation to the Australian public to tell them why I'm going to vote No.
I've kept out of detailed involvement --
TONY ABBOTT: Well, John Howard was absolutely true to his word.
He said that he would hold a convention. He did.
He said that he would put the issue to the people.He did.
He said that he would state his case. He did.
He said that he wouldn't be campaigning on this every day. He wasn't.
PROF GREG CRAVEN: I think the Prime Minister had an enormous significance in the outcome of the referendum.
Mr Howard is a consummate and intelligent politician.
I think he played his cards consummately and intelligently.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Two weeks before the vote the Prime Minister, in a letter to his electorate, set out his reasons for supporting the No case.
The next day, at a campaign launch for conservative republicans, the Treasurer, Peter Costello, weighed in to support the Yes case.
PETER COSTELLO AT CONSERVATIVES FOR AN AUSTRALIAN HEAD OF STATE MEETING: I thought carefully and I came to the conclusion that monarchy was not a symbol for Australia.
It was not a concept for me and it was not a symbol for Australia.
PETER COSTELLO: I think that the temper of the Australian public is now republican.
That is that all of the traditional reasons for monarchy -- that it would provide a unifying symbol, that it would demonstrate the derivation of Australia from its British heritage, that it would unify us as part of a Commonwealth -- I think all of those justifications have now passed and I think Australia now thinks itself republican.
TIM COSTELLO: Peter?
Yeah, I think he did extremely well.
And I think in some respects it was his best moment thus far on the national stage.
I think he -- you know, he's very proud of budgets and other things, but I think the power and cogency of his argument brought lots of Liberals who were wavering, who themselves not understanding the issue necessarily -- constitutional issues are complex -- look to their leader, and saw one set of signals, and then had to listen to Peter to be given another set of reasons why, as Liberals, they might actually embrace this.
And I think he did very, very well.
PROF GREG CRAVEN: When one talks of the republic, when one talks of republicanism in a conservative context, you're talking of people like Peter Costello and John Fahey.
When you're talking about monarchy, you're talking about people like John Howard and Nick Minchin.
It's not hard to see how in the future when these matters are raised, they will involve not only the politics, but the politics of personality.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: And is that a code for leadership?
PROF GREG CRAVEN: Well, time will tell.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: The media love to see everything as a leadership issue.
I mean, you know, what sort of cereal you have for breakfast they'd turn into a leadership issue.
So inevitably whatever John Howard did or whatever Peter Costello did would be seen through the filter of leadership by the media.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Would you like to see it in your political lifetime, a republic?
PETER COSTELLO: Well, I would like to see a republic, yes.
I campaigned for that.
The reality is that the majority of Australians voted against it.
I have to accept the verdict but I haven't changed my view.
I don't now say, "Well, we'll be a better country "with a monarchy for the next 10 or 20 or 30 years."
That's my view.
It just happens to be a minority view and I can live with that.
I'm used to being in minorities.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: The Queen's visit to Australia later this month will be very different from those she's made in the past.
She'll spend a lot of time in regional Australia, where support for the monarchy is strongest.
And even though this is our Olympic year, the Queen hasn't been invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Games.
PHIL CLEARY: To think that you could resurrect the monarchy in 2000 or 2001 is an act of lunacy, seriously.
It is over.
It isn't anymore about "I did but see her passing by."
I mean, she's passed by, gone, long gone, LONG gone.
TONY ABBOTT: No, not at all.
See, the Queen is our Queen, but our head of state is the Governor-General and that's why I think it's perfectly appropriate that the Governor-General open the Olympic Games.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: It's no inconsistency, no suggestion that we're uncomfortable at all with the symbolism?
TONY ABBOTT: Nope, none whatsoever.
PETER COSTELLO: I think as public sentiment moves on, at some point the public will say it's time to recognise reality.
And at that point you might get the constitutional change.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: And reality is that a republic is inevitable?
PETER COSTELLO: Reality is we think ourselves republican and monarchy does not symbolise our nation.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: What did your research show about the Queen?
KERRY JONES: Um -- impeccable.
Even by republicans, actually -- impeccable woman, a great lady, a wonderful stateswoman, probably, you know, recognised as the most established leading woman in the world.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Very popular?
KERRY JONES: I don't think 'popular' is the right word.
I would say impeccably regarded.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Look -- this is my fundamental gripe with the monarchists and with John Howard in particular.
They know that most Australians do not want to keep the Queen as their head of state.
They know that.
Every poll tells them that.
Their whole campaign strategy was based on that premise, so they accept that.
Yet they want to keep the Queen -- who they apparently adore -- as head of state of a country the majority of whose citizens do not want her, simply by exploiting differences between those Australian citizens as to what to put in her place.
I mean, it is a demeaning --
an absolutely demeaning way to treat the Queen.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: Soon after the referendum John Howard hosted a private celebration for monarchists.
Direct electionists were conspicuous by their absence.
After a lengthy session in Cabinet the Government made it clear that the debate was now over.
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: You know it's not a debate that's carried on.
DEBBIE WHITMONT: That was a directive from the Prime Minister, though, wasn't it?
SENATOR NICK MINCHIN: But it wasn't required.
There was clear agreement within our ranks immediately after the referendum that, you know, we should all just get on with the job of governing Australia, that we'd honoured our promise, we had the vote, the people had decided and the matter was now at rest.
PETER COSTELLO: I think we should continue to discuss it.
We should discuss everything, all those big, major, public issues.
Of course we should discuss it.
There's nothing off bounds for discussion.
KIM BEAZLEY, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: I think you've first got to ask the Australian people in a plebiscite -- not a referendum, a plebiscite -- whether they want to be a republic.
I think when the Australian people have actually voted Yes, as I believe they would, to that proposition, they will start to feel at least part ownership of what subsequently appears before them in referenda or plebiscites.
Now we'll finalise a position on this and go into the next election with a set of propositions as to how we should proceed.
DAVID ELLIOTT: Next time the debate comes up, if they try to throw up a plebiscite and say, Do you want to be a republic?"
I mean, I will be telling the electorate, you know, "Treat this with the contempt it deserves."
I mean, "Do you want a republic?"
What kind of a question's that?
"Do you still beat your wife?"
I mean, that is just such --
"What are you going to do with it if I say yes?"
You know, "Are you going to force a model on me that I don't like?
"Are you going to force a system of government on me that I don't like?
"Are you going to force an untried, untested model on me?
"No, I'm not going to give you a blank cheque "by saying yes, I want a republic.
"You come back to me and give me more detail."
PROF GREG CRAVEN: I think that the republican referendum of 1999 in hindsight will be seen very much in the same way as the Federation referenda of the 1890s.
That we had a moment where the opportunity presented itself to translate our constitution with all of its principles intact into a new republican idiom and we blew it in the way that we didn't blow it back in the 1890s.
I think we've lost an enormous opportunity.
When you remember that Deakin's explanation for Federation was that "It's a miracle," it seems to me that we failed to grasp our own miracle.
And the question of when it will come again for us is a very, very real and hard question.
KERRY JONES: I think we should ask the people of Australia question 1 -- do they want more time and money spent on the republic issue?
I think if you ask them that question you'd get a resounding "No, we don't."


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I need 100 different recipes done for snacks, drinks, main meals from different websites which the web address's will be sent to you and what you need to do. All the recipes must be in Australian understanding such as grams, cup etc and all heading names must be changed to something else not the same. All recipes must not have alcohol, sugars, starches or oil in them and must only contain one protein and I vegetable with the rest being herbs and spices. These website link provided for you to get these recipes from should already have all the hard work done for you.
I want a background to be like an open cooking book with a binder in the middle and have recipes on each side and have it so when you click on the bottom of the page the page turns over to the next. This all must be able to be put onto a cd.
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I need a website built for an escort agency. It will be required to have various pages ranging from contact us, how to pay, mission statement, FAQ and of course escort profiles. The profiles will be managed and maintained by us, however it would be good if the escorts could log into the system and update a calendar with their availability. Complete details are not yet 100% final as yet. We would be interested in some help and advise on the site, plus if you have any previous sites you have design for us to review it would be beneficial.
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- Year Built 1984
- $5,545 Taxes Municipal 2015
- $1,457 Taxes School 2014
Additional FeaturesDistinctive features: Water access, Distinctive features: Water front, Distinctive features: Motor boat allowed, Driveway: Plain paving stone, Cupboard: Wood, Heating system: Electric baseboard units, Water supply: Municipality, Heating energy: Electricity, Equipment available: Central vacuum, Equipment available: Electric garage door, Equipment available: Alarm system, Windows: Wood, Foundation: Poured concrete, Hearth stove: Gaz fireplace, Garage: Attached, Distinctive features: No neighbours in the back, Proximity: Highway, Proximity: Golf, Proximity: Park - green area, Proximity: Elementary school, Proximity: High school, Proximity: Public transport, Siding: Brick, Siding: Stucco, Bathroom / Washroom: Adjoining to the master bedroom, Basement: 6 feet and over, Basement: Seperate entrance, Basement: Finished basement, Parking: Outdoor x 3, Parking: Garage x 2, Sewage system: Municipal sewer, Landscaping: Landscape, Roofing: Asphalt shingles, View: Water, View: Panoramic, Zoning: Residential
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Here is a nice rest area (really) in the center of Brussels. You will be neighboring the Royal Palace which is just behind the apartment. 3 minute walk from Sablon and Magritte museum, 10 minutes walk (800m) from the Grand Place and the European Parliament. The Porte de Namur is - 100 meters.
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Skip to comments.Gloria Allred seeks Rush Limbaugh prosecution
Posted on 03/09/2012 11:26:12 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a slut and prostitute last week.
Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised her free speech and her right to testify before congress on a very important issue to millions of American women and he vilified her. He defamed her and engaged in unwarranted, tasteless and exceptionally damaging attacks on her, Allred told POLITICO Friday afternoon. He needs to face the consequences of his conduct in every way that is meaningful.
In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Womens Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.
The statute stipulates that anyone who speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Allred explained that the statute recently came to her attention as having never been repealed, and that it could very well apply to Limbaughs remarks as his show is broadcast from West Palm Beach.
It is now entirely up to the prosecutor to exercise his discretion on whether there will be a prosecution. McAuliffe did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Allred, whose most recent high-profile clients have included Sharon Bialek, who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment, and porn star Ginger Lee, who exchanged explicit emails with former Rep. Anthony Weiner, said Friday that she has not yet been in touch with Fluke.
I dont reach out to women, they reach out to me, she said. If she did reach out to me, obviously I would respond.
Limbaughs contentious remarks, made against Fluke for testifying on Capitol Hill about womens access to contraception, resulted in widespread public outrage and dozens of advertisers pulling their commercials from his three-hour program.
(See also: Cartoonists skewer Rush Limbaugh)
I understand why sponsors are abandoning Mr. Limbaugh in droves, Allred said. I think sponsors that remain with him are supporting him and providing commercial dollars to him and his program, condoning what he said.
She added, Hitting him economically is one price that he has to pay. He needs to be accountable in every way possible.
If they ever get Rush good and truly pissed off then they will find out what effective boycotts actually look like.
If this flies, Palin could shut down the entire MSM
Rush is fuzzy little furball.
Allred is attracted to publicity like flies to poop
..."Oreilly had a good peice on her tonight. Not a big fan of his but at least he dug into who she is ......better than you can say for most outlets"...
Oreilly has been excellent as of late. I have started watching him again..I believe he has finally seen enough to scare him for his children's future. He is not on the fence anymore.
Nope. Doesn't sound like she's reaching out, does it?
..."Allred appears to be an Obama proxy. Let her bring this to national attention.
The public back-lash will be enormous. Bring it on!"...
This may be the one which sends Gloria's power into oblivion. What's the matter, Gloria..Age getting to you?
She's just channeling her "inner Alinsky".
Two words describe Allred.
Media Whore.
they feel that good about stealling our constitutional rights, they have no fear of behaving like this.
Here we go again. That man-hating bitch (who has a face like George Wallace) is going off stirring up more man-hate among the man-hating bitches.
You just gotta love feminists. /sarc
Does *anybody* take this histrionic old DemboHag *seriously* anymore?
It wasn't House testimony. It was a publicity stunt set up to look like a real hearing .... something the media overlooks in their descriptions of Fluke. I am not aware that she has ever testified at a House hearing, at least not in relation to the current kerfluffle. So .... does willingly participating in a publicity stunt make you a public figure? My vote would be 'yes'.
Also, Allred mischaracterizes the content of Rush's apology. Rush's 'apology' did not acknowledge anything other than he should have been more careful with his choice of words. That was it ... 'choice of words'. Rush may have been careless in his choice of words, but that apology was VERY carefully worded .... I'm sure HIS attorney took a good look at it before it ever went out.
This could end up getting Rush another million listeners.
Gloria you ignortant slut.
That's a telling picture. She has the look of a personality disordered sociopath. Reminds me of my ex-wife.
"And I see in this a vehicle for advancing my prominence, representing myself as a champion of something or other, and making a dump truck load of money," she added.
Absolutely. Fluke got on the soapbox and advocated her politcal position. Her speech is protected by the 1st amendment and so is anyone who has a dissenting view. Rush could call her a slut every day, but he is protected, just like Fluke. Alred knows this.
Noter: to Gloriaosky ALL Red What do YOu call any woman who expects somebody else to pay for her to have sex?— In the America I grew up in we such such a woman a slut. Now IF the
Obama connected plant at Georgetown (Ms.Fluke) was NOT expecting somebody else to pay for her ,and her kind, to have sex without the niggling little consequence of such activity -commonly known as pregnancy—that what exactly does Ms. All Red call what she was doing? —RUSH is RIGHT.
Rush should have saved that slam for Gloria!.......
AllRED prostitutes herself everytime there's a camera around.
what an asshole when does she go after marhed
This is REALLY unfair to the poisonous blue-ringged octopus. What did they ever do to you?
Like to see someone take Gloria Allred up in an R-44 to about 5000 feet and push her sorry publicity chasing ass out.
I remember watching a 20/20 interview with John Stossel back in 1990's, who was questioning the lowerering of physical standards so women could be become fireighters.. There is one standard that a firefighter must able to carry person out of a fire on their shoulders but since most women can't do that, they changed the andard so they only had to DRAG the person by their foot out of the fire.. They demonstrated this procedure and added the situation where they had to drag them down the stairs which caused a problem because the victims head would hit each step as he was being drug out of the house causing serious head and neck injures. This bimbo and stupid lawyer daughter stated dragging a person out by the legs was a safer procedure than carrying over the shoulder even when presented with facts that obvious showed otherwise.. I remember my wife was sort buying feminist crap at that time,but after that interview she no longer did.
I've always felt this Bolshevik in drag had the perfect name. Some jokes just write themselves.
Exactly why this is all bluff and bluster.
Gloria is one of those narcissistic zombies who's had so many cosmetic surgeries that she no longer appears to be human.
Like blowflies to a corpse.
Good thing you got rid of her...
I find it amusing that there's a Black comedian named George Wallace.
It really is scary to think that someone could be prosecuted for saying certain words. (Other than shouting "fire" in a theatre).
When I first heard of the comedian George Wallace (25 years ago) I thought it was amusing too.
Isn't he in that new Eddie Murphy movie 'A Thousand Words'?
Ms. Allred is the epitome of an Ambulance Chaser she also demeans the legal profession...she is a hustler whose ethics are always questionable and not to be trusted. I wish the ABA would revoke her license to practice, they certainly have grounds for revoking it.
There. I fixed it.
I'm surprised that All Red doesn't see the irony here.
What the left was cheering about, the possible demise of Limbaugh, did not happen. Instead, the double standard has gone front and center.
Interesting. Sounds like that might have to be settled in court.
According to the Republican National Convention Blog, this is what Rush said:
RUSH: What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled." I take it back.
So Rush assigned humorous descriptions to the actors in this play and provided humorous speculation about their motives. In context, he was clearly not referring to Fluke's actual sexual proclivities, and he was not being serious. Also, he retracted the word "slut" almost immediately after he used it.
...she will be paid off where she can continue doing her nasty work.
Yes. Rush's comments have probably dramatically increased her income and improved her social life. Where are the damages?
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Boogie Babies Address: 1928 B Star-Batt Drive, Rochester Hills Phone: 248-852-6288 Moms and toddlers will find not only a fun environment, but an educational and safe environment, too (and clean – read about their UV-C sanitizing method). This is a great spot for open play, live music concerts, a cafe and lounge, tree house play structure and craft area. Plus: classes in music, sign language and more. Don't miss the puppet shows and magic shows! The Chelsea TreeHouse Address: 1101 S. Main St., Chelsea Phone: 734-475-1555 In addition to the huge tree house, this indoor play center has a climbing and playing structure, five slides, swinging bridges and a special area just for babies and toddlers. Parents will dig the comfy chairs and selection of snacks, light meals and hot or cold drinks. Funtastic Play Centers Locations in Canton and Woodhaven Phone: 734-335-7402 (Canton), 734-692-3867 (Woodhaven) These indoor spots have soft play equipment that encourages movement, exploration and creativity in a playful setting. At the Woodhaven location, check out the Toddler Time program, offered twice a week for kids ages 2 and under, and lets moms and dads interact with their tots and have the place to themselves. The newer location in Canton also offers toddler-friendly programing and events. Call for details. Rochester Play! Address: 380 E. Second St., Rochester Phone: 248-650-PLAY (7529) This indoor play center is great for toddlers, since it has an area designated just for little ones. There are cool games like a wacky froggy game (bop 'em just like wack-a-mole), and Rochester Play! even has family events (moms and dads will want to check out the Parents' Night Out happening around once a month). The café here puts an emphasis on healthier eats, to boot. Tiny Treasures Play Cafe Address: 1138 E. West Maple Road, Walled Lake Phone: 248-896-2575 This indoor play and birthday party venue is ideal for ages 6 and younger. Littlest guests can play with age-appropriate toys at the Baby Station and older toddlers can enjoy the ball pit, dress-up area, craft table, bouncer and more. Fort Clarkston Address: 7127 Dixie Highway, Clarkston Phone: 248-297-5453 This new indoor play place lets kids creatively explore 2,400 square feet of play area while the grown-ups get to take a breather (plus enjoy Wi-Fi and cafe treats). There's also a smaller two-level play structure for the little ones. This post was originally published in 2014 and was updated in 2016.


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