The British laid on a feast of jubilee festivities for the royal-loving public while in Australia celebrations were more subdued. |OPINION by ViscountBrooky Queen PlatinumJubilee
The platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II – an unprecedented event – was celebrated in Britain over a four-day holiday with the Trooping The Colour, an incredible Royal Air Force flyover, four-year-old Prince Louis mugging for the cameras, the National Service of Thanksgiving, the Platinum Jubilee Concert featuring Diana Ross, Duran Duran and Queen, as well as seemingly a million street parties. Britain, as the joke went, was 98 per cent bunting.
At the same time, the previously dead, buried and cremated idea of turning Australia into a republic suddenly disinterred itself from its 1999 grave and shook the dust off itself. But if they were smart, they would have realised that the government gave the issue the lowest priority. Maybe. Rather than relying on the unpopularity of Charles, republicans should really be worrying about the growing popularity of William and Kate. The movement will need to unite an activist base and then bring the quiet Australians to the cause. Already it risks the younger generation regarding it as an OK Boomer cause that was fuelled by anger over governor general Sir John Kerr’s improper dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.Sure, times are changing.
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