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- From: axolotl@socs.uts.EDU.AU (Iain Sinclair)
- Newsgroups: aus.politics
- Subject: Re: The Republic: An Issue To Ponder...
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:52:27 +1100
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
- >It'd be nice to think that one day Australia could actually make a major
- >decision about itself in its own right rather than have the outcome largely
- >determined by external forces.
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- How exactly will becoming a republic make us less susceptible to
- "external forces"?
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- There'll be plenty of "external forces" if our constitution is remodelled on
- (god forbid) the US model.
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