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...bitterly opposed to giving up their social placement above the ex-convicts and their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This was rammed home after the discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851, just after the California gold rush. "All the aristocratic feelings and associations of [England]," wrote John Sherer, an observer of the gold rush in 1853, "are at once annihilated...It is not what...
...colonial mentality when I was born, in 1938. Only vestiges of it survive today. The most important of these relics is, of course, its monarchy. It is a bizarre fact that no Australian can be the head of state of Australia. That role is reserved for the King or Queen of England, by definition a foreigner, and not even an elected foreigner: the office of the Australian head of state remains purely hereditary, open only to a small clan of Anglo-German squillionaires known as the Windsor family. This appreciably narrows the field of talent...
According to the Australian constitution--a document written for us by the English at the turn of the century--it is ultimately the English monarch who rules Australia through an unelected viceroy, the Governor-General. This official may be Australian or may not. He may, on behalf of the Queen, cancel any law enacted by the Australian government or even throw out the government and call for new elections. Or he may not. In practice he almost never does. The last and only time he did was in 1975, when the G-G, Sir John Kerr, fired the Labor government...
...firing of Whitlam made many Australians sit up with a jerk. It had never occurred to them before that the Queen had the raw constitutional power to do such a thing. It cranked up the long-dormant impulse toward republicanism. Until the 1970s this had been an issue only for intellectuals and a few left-wing workers whose vehemence earned them an undeserved reputation as ratbags (obsessed eccentrics). The problem was democratizing the republican issue while detaching it from the ownership of the Australian left. And it did slowly broaden, though its main political instrument, the Australian Republican Movement (A.R.M...
...play in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?”OB: I play Mae.RR: Who is Mae? Tell me a little about her.OB: Mae is the sister-in-law of Brick and Maggie, who are the two main characters. She was Cotton Carnival Queen in high school. She has five kids. She has a sixth on the way and is very proud of her children and thinks that she deserves all of the attention and all of the inheritance.RR: So you have kind of a feud with Maggie [played by Allison H. Rich...