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It was obviously a bigger story here and so we had more background on the DJs and the Station they worked for. The station was on 'parole' as it was, these OTT shock Pranks were their stock in trade and they had been off Air for three months before for shocking the whole country by bullying a 14 year old girl who had just admitted that she had been raped.Face it, gabriel. You are a contrarian who insists that no one else has the right to be contrary.
I've never tried to speak for 33 million, but the hundreds of Canadians that I do know certainly have shown no signs of being obsessed with fealty to the British Crown. The trappings of the Monarchy are merely vestigial now even in Great Britain. The true political power is held by the Parliaments in both nations.
Madame's implication was that Australian radio personalities play to the British public simply because they belong to the Commonwealth. I disagree with that assertion. I am of the opinion that their prank was intended only to amuse their local, Australian audience. Our discussion had nothing whatsoever to do with how either Americans, Australians or Canadians select their Heads of State.
What I said about the Monarchy was also only to give a better understand of Australias relationship with and ties too Britain which are not the same as Americas relation ship with Britain, in part because of the Monarchy because it is still, by their choice their Monarchy. Our Imperialism implied within it Liberty for the People, which again is not a simple concept.
It was not as a statement about how any one feels about that part of our constitutional trilogy called The Monarchy.
The Monarchy, The Church and Parliament, what ever any of us think of it personally it is our balance, our constancy and our stability even as eroded and as unsafe as it seems to be at the moment,
The Presses relationship, as with The Peoples relationship, with Monarchy, is a complex and especially after Diana rather a fragile thing but an understanding does exist. Americans rarely understand any of its complexity or that of a Constitutional Trilogy as opposed to a Mono. Australians, on the otherhand do understand it.
Apart from the fact that it is an absolute No No to air someones conversation without their consent and invasion of Privacy is another No No. Never in a million years did those DJs not wish for this story not to break in Britain .Never. It was their big break. By breaking eggs ! Humpty Dumpty ............