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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: mightytiges on January 26, 2015, 02:14:56 PM
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is standing by his decision to make the Queen’s husband, Prince Phillip, an Australian knight.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australia-day-2015-former-defence-force-chief-angus-houston-and-prince-philip-our-newest-knights/story-fnii5smr-1227196430177
:facepalm
Seriously, what an embarrassing joke that makes a total farce of our Australian awards system. It's unfair to those who over the years have genuinely earnt their award by making a significant contribution to our country.
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Lmao. Deadset, what a boob.
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NT News has the best headline so far;
"Thanks Austria, says Sir Prince" sub titled, "Quote may be fabricated"
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Heh...Tony trolling the left again....
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Interesting with Shorten spruiking a Republic at the same time.
:cheers
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Just another example of Tony showing his outstanding leadership qualities
Highlighting his understanding for the feelings of the majority of the people he is supposed to represent
Is there a more out of touch pollie around than our PM
Sorry but this is one of the most idiotic, egotistical decisions made by this fool.
No I don't like him never have but stupidity like this just confirms what I've always believed and known and that is the man is a moron
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Bill Shorten must be laughing his ass off at this clown! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Heh...Tony trolling the left again....
Re-introducing the knights and dames was trolling the left.
Giving one to PP is trolling Team Australia.
It's hard to see this buffoon lasting the year.
The Rudd/Gillard lesson is relevant to the libs here. The lesson is that you can't leave an ex leader lurking on the backbench. They need to get him right out of the picture, send him off to the Vatican on a special mission.
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:facepalm what a wanka
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The real stupidity was when Tone bought the antiquated titles of Knights and Dames back in the first place. Prince Sir Phillip just cream on the cake.
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The real stupidity was when Tone bought the antiquated titles of Knights and Dames back in the first place. Prince Sir Phillip just cream on the cake.
He did say at the time they would be for Australians only.
One term Tony looks like becoming half-term Tony.
:lol
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gee big issues here ranks with all the other issues going on in our country
if shorton gets in :banghead i hope he takes it to a vote because from my understanding it was dodgy the way it was handled last time and really who wants or cares about the monarchy.
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gee big issues here ranks with all the other issues going on in our country
if shorton gets in :banghead i hope he takes it to a vote because from my understanding it was dodgy the way it was handled last time and really who wants or cares about the monarchy.
What are you talking about Angus :huh
Tony's idiotic decision to give Prince Phillip a knighthood or wanting another vote on a republic?
2 totally separate issues
But you are right if you are talking about the republic vote. Yes in a way about the last vote on a republic was dodgy. it got defeated not because people wanted to keep the monarchy
But because John Howard and his then govt structured in such a way that we the public would have no say on who our head of state was going to be. People voted more against the model on offer than wanting to keep the monarchy IMVHO
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Julie Bishop....Come on down...
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Julie Bishop....Come on down...
Nah. Time for Turnbull to make a comeback.
:lol
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The whole knighthood rubbish was bloody out of touch in the 70s, let alone 2015.
It's as relevant today as the White Australia policy and conscription.
Hands up again who voted this pea brain in? :lol
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You guys are taking this too far, I am a 100% certain that there's a bevy of eighty year old grannies in nursing homes around Australia listening to their transistors and thinking Tony is Fabio the love god incarnate
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The whole knighthood rubbish was bloody out of touch in the 70s, let alone 2015.
It's as relevant today as the White Australia policy and conscription.
Hands up again who voted this pea brain in? :lol
Or to put it more accurately hands up who voted Ruddard out! :clapping :cheers
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Even Abbott's justification of hundreds of charities is now found to be bogus :wallywink.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/doubts-over-tony-abbotts-justification-for-prince-philip-knighthood-20150127-12yzc2.html
Anyone for tiddlywinks? :lol
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Care factor zero.
Didn't even know Australia had this honour and without googling Id love for anyone to name 10 people that have been given it.
In saying that, Tony is a tool and this is just another excuse for people to get stuck into him.
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Looking at this further, it's comical.
15 men and 4 woman have received this "honour".
Of these, all were awarded prior to 1984 until 5 were awarded from 2014 till now. So it's gone mad in the last 12 months .
Interestingly, Prince Charles is among the 19. So Philip is hardly the standout non Aussie royal.
So we went 30 years without anyone bothering to award this honour to anyone and then there has been 5 on Tony's watch. He's clearly a goose, but nobody seemed to care prior.
Mountain , mole hill.
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You guys are simply unhappy at this most warranted of awards because you cant stand the fact that a greek has rooted your head of state for decades
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The whole knighthood rubbish was bloody out of touch in the 70s, let alone 2015.
It's as relevant today as the White Australia policy and conscription.
Hands up again who voted this pea brain in? :lol
me
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Looking at this further, it's comical.
15 men and 4 woman have received this "honour".
Of these, all were awarded prior to 1984 until 5 were awarded from 2014 till now. So it's gone mad in the last 12 months .
Interestingly, Prince Charles is among the 19. So Philip is hardly the standout non Aussie royal.
So we went 30 years without anyone bothering to award this honour to anyone and then there has been 5 on Tony's watch. He's clearly a goose, but nobody seemed to care prior.
Mountain , mole hill.
We went 30 years without it being awarded because the 'knighthood' no longer existed in our Australian awards system in that whole time. Whitlam was the first to scrap it in the early 70s, Fraser brought it back (which is how Charles got one - a joke as well) before Hawke scrapped it again in 1984. No one bothered caring because it didn't exist to care about for those 30 years.
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You guys are simply unhappy at this most warranted of awards because you cant stand the fact that a greek has rooted your head of state for decades
Never mind that he doesn't actually have one drop of Greek blood.
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Born in Greece and had a father born in Greece as well.
:thumbsup
http://www.google.com.au/#q=prince+phillip
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He is the longest-serving, oldest-ever spouse of a reigning British monarch, and the longest-lived male member of the British royal family. Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1921 (age 93), Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
Spouse: Elizabeth II (m. 1947)
Children: Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Parents: Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Princess Alice of Battenberg
Siblings: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, more
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hahaha ramps is back. Gold. Bent over by a greek
WP i hope they do get rid of the monarchy because i think it a lot of australians were fooled last time and really who wants them or needs them.
I am probably contradicting myself a bit here but i dont care about abbott knighting the bloke either because i simply dont care for the award and for 30 years no one really has. Im tipping no one really cared in the 80's when charles was knighted so i put it down to christmas holidays and murdoch trying to sell papers which he clearly has.
who cares move on to bigger issues
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Born in Greece and had a father born in Greece as well.
:thumbsup
http://www.google.com.au/#q=prince+phillip
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He is the longest-serving, oldest-ever spouse of a reigning British monarch, and the longest-lived male member of the British royal family. Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1921 (age 93), Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
Spouse: Elizabeth II (m. 1947)
Children: Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Parents: Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Princess Alice of Battenberg
Siblings: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, more
He still doesn't have any Greek blood and you know it.
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His father was born in Greece, he was born in Greece and yet he is Danish?
:lol
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As Greek as Danish Feta.
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WP i hope they do get rid of the monarchy because i think it a lot of australians were fooled last time and really who wants them or needs them.
Agree
I am probably contradicting myself a bit here but i dont care about abbott knighting the bloke either because i simply dont care for the award and for 30 years no one really has. Im tipping no one really cared in the 80's when charles was knighted so i put it down to christmas holidays and murdoch trying to sell papers which he clearly has.
Think you need to read MT's comment Angus
the only reason 'no-one' cared for 30 years is because for 30 year we didn't hand out knighthoods. they were (rightly) given the stuff
But thanks to good old Tony self confessed monarchist & egotistical moron they were bought back in 2014. Why? who knows but he did. And now thanks to Tony and his blantant stupidity we as a nation are yet again embarassed and are a laughing stock internationally.
Agree there are bigger issues that need to be dealt with. Pity Tony finds handing out undeserving Knighthoods more important than dealing with them
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You guys are simply unhappy at this most warranted of awards because you cant stand the fact that a greek has rooted your head of state for decades
Never mind that he doesn't actually have one drop of Greek blood.
that's just a technicality ;D
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i read what i wrote and what i meant to say no one cared back then and no one cares now and yes he looks like an idiot but its done now move on. Its not like he wasted billions of dollars now is it. :shh Agreed he looks like a fool though.
the only thing that makes sense is that we move on from the monarchy and stop paying that governer bludger person for doing sfa