[Unobtainable] Free Portrait of HM King Charles III for Citizens of Australia by Request to Your Federal MP

Kazusa on 12/12/2023 - 22:57
Last edited 18/12/2023 - 12:03 by 1 other user

Moved to Forum: Original Link

Info from user who works with an MP: No portrait of the king has been produced yet.

Considering we have a new king this year it's an opportune time to remind everyone that all citizens* of Australia are entitled to a free portrait of the ruling Monarch from their local federal government member. If you're not sure who that is you can go to the Parliament's web site and search by your postcode(aph.gov.au). Contact them by email, phone, or drop in to ask how to get yours.

Home & Garden

Related Stores

Parliament of Australia
Parliament of Australia

Comments

  • linkindan on 12/12/2023 - 22:59
    +2

    Is it hand painted?

    • [Deactivated] on 13/12/2023 - 07:06

      I did not read after we

  • SirFaffer on 12/12/2023 - 23:01
    +23

    Great! Just have to choose whether to bin it, burn it or urinate on it.

  • haidasalami on 12/12/2023 - 23:02
    +18

    Ahhh Nothing like a portrait to remind you of your unelected betters !

  • teabone on 12/12/2023 - 23:03
    +30

    No thanks. I already have toilet paper.

    • Wiadro on 13/12/2023 - 00:09

      I hope it’s softer than this paper

  • bigbadboogieman on 12/12/2023 - 23:03
    +1

    Does it come autographed?

    • jv on 12/12/2023 - 23:04

      "Members of the British royal family are not allowed to sign autographs."

      • roseyhead on 12/12/2023 - 23:06

        Who's gonna enforce that?

        • jv on 12/12/2023 - 23:07

          here…

          • Altashi on 12/12/2023 - 23:32

            @jv: Are those guys gonna shoot the king if he signs an autograph?

    • tooblue on 13/12/2023 - 09:37

      Yes, it reads "Camilla's tampon".

  • jv on 12/12/2023 - 23:03
    +1

    Thanks !!!

  • Iluvfreebies on 12/12/2023 - 23:05
    +4

    Got 10

    • krisspy on 12/12/2023 - 23:51
      +1

      Not sure if devotion to king or Broden

  • he11bent on 12/12/2023 - 23:06

    Does it come in a frame already?

    • King Tightarse on 12/12/2023 - 23:27
      +2

      Wrong war.
      The British monarchy did change their name from the German in WW1 but no big deal.
      Anglo-Saxon people are basically German anyway. English is a Germanic language.
      All one happy family.

        • King Tightarse on 12/12/2023 - 23:29

          lol

          • drazenm on 12/12/2023 - 23:33
            -8

            @King Tightarse: I know, I, know, it's just hard to turn elsewhere when you're constantly only bombarded with one the same "legit" facts. Aka fact checked! 🤣

            I love how we're living in best times ever! Just chuck it under the rug and dance B, dance! 🥳

            • callum9999 on 13/12/2023 - 00:20
              +7

              @drazenm: If you want people to come around to your view, it's best to not babble incoherently then insult them when they question you.

              I despise the royal family (and I do not use that word lightly - they're a family of privileged dictators who are above the law, living off historic wealth stolen from the citizens they subjugated). If you can't even convince me that you have a point, what hope do you have with anyone else?

              • drazenm on 13/12/2023 - 00:27
                -7

                @callum9999: How am I insulting people please? Am I not allowing everyone to be nannied, babifed, wear pink fluffy socks?

                I'm just saying it as it is, give delusional peasants games and bread and they'll be happily distracted : )

                • callum9999 on 13/12/2023 - 04:04
                  +3

                  @drazenm: I've really got to increase my willpower to stop replying to these ridiculous posts.

                  I hope you think you're just being funny, but I fear you don't…

                  • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 08:13

                    @callum9999: I think he's referring to this: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33578174

                    It's the BBC so about as normy-friendly as you're going to get. Features the young Queen Liz doing the Nazi salute, just kids playing around probably.

                    "In October 1937, Edward and his wife - by now the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - visited Nazi Germany with the idea of discussing becoming a figurehead for an international movement for peace on Hitler's terms.

                    During the controversial visit they met Hitler and dined with his deputy, Rudolf Hess

                    Evidence emerged Edward went to the early stages of a concentration camp, although it is not thought evidence of mass murder was made clear to him."

                    Or from SBS: https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/article/a-brief-history-of-t…

                    "Nazi sympathisers the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (whose relationship is explored in SBS documentary Spying on the Royals), alleged WWII plots to install a pro-Nazi government and that controversial footage of Queen Elizabeth apparently making the Nazi salute as a child.

                    Now the question remains: just how far reaching were their Nazi connections? With the Royal Family refusing to release historical documents that would bring greater clarity to the issue, alternate evidence has come to light and theories abate."

                    Meh, whatever as far as I'm concerned I have nothing but contempt for most authority so these types of things are surprising in the least. :)

                    • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 08:30
                      +2

                      @EightImmortals: The UK really dodged a bullet by getting rid of Edward VIII. He was a nasty piece of work and a Nazi sympathiser. I’ve yet to see much that shows the brother had similar views.

                      • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 08:45
                        -4

                        @try2bhelpful: My immediate thoughts are that they seem to show allegiance to the prevailing popular power of the day. In Edward's time is was the National Socialist Party of Germany and it's vision of global control. In Chucks time it is the 'climate change' ideology and the legislative and financial apparatus using those beliefs as their basis leading to the huge transfer in power and wealth we are currently witnessing. Or at least those who are looking are. :)

                        • jackspratt on 13/12/2023 - 12:19
                          +1

                          @EightImmortals: It's amazing what you can see, and think you can see, when you really want to.

                        • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 12:48

                          @EightImmortals: Well, we know your past arguments so I’m not surprised.

                          • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 13:19

                            @try2bhelpful: Was making an observation, not an argument. As I said, I don't really care what they get up to.

                            • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 13:20

                              @EightImmortals: It is your version of an observation. Wouldn’t say it was impartial. Not an argument just an observation.

                              • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 13:22

                                @try2bhelpful: Fair enough. :)

                                • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 13:24

                                  @EightImmortals: No probs. Trying to equate the National Socialists with climate change that is backed up by a lot of the world’s scientists is a tad of a false equivalence.

                                  • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 13:26

                                    @try2bhelpful: Except I didn't. What I did was to point out the seeming allegiance of 'royals' to whatever the current global thing is at the time. But hey if you're keen you could dig into Herr Schwab's family history…. :)

                                    • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 13:39

                                      @EightImmortals: I don’t think your premise is valid anyway. When Chuck started with his environmental concerns he was pretty much discredited by the mainstream for doing so. The mainstream has now been able to access the evidence and are aligning with him.

                                      I don’t think National Socialism was a “thing of that time” in England. It certainly wasn’t mainstream in England when Edward the VIII was dabbling with it. It is a bit like the extreme rightwingers nowadays. It was popular with people who had a particular mindset.

                                      • EightImmortals on 13/12/2023 - 13:50

                                        @try2bhelpful: Yeah not sure about England, was pretty popular in the U.S. at the time.

                                        https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazi…
                                        https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/american-nazis-in-…

                                        IIRC

                                        I think they had a crack in England as well but didn't too far, probably because of what was going on in Europe at the time.

                                        Anyway, can't change the past and I've got stuff to do.

                                        cya.

                                        • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 13:55

                                          @EightImmortals: True with US. The Nazi salutes after the Hindenburg disaster were pretty sickening.

                                          Have fun.

                                          • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 14:12

                                            @King Tightarse: Not saying they weren’t there just saying they weren’t very mainstream.

                                            • King Tightarse on 13/12/2023 - 14:30

                                              @try2bhelpful: Sure, well sort of.
                                              The leader Oswald Mosley had a very high profile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley but their overall popularity as a party declined as WW2 came near.

                                              • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 14:45
                                                +1

                                                @King Tightarse: They were worrying but I don’t think there was any real risk they would be a significant political force in a similar manner to Germany. Mosley was, certainly, a piece of work. The trouble is when you can play on people’s paranoia and give them simplistic solutions that blame minorities. However, the UK did opt for Brexit and backed it up with putting Boris in. Maybe you do have a point :).

                                                • King Tightarse on 13/12/2023 - 14:49

                                                  @try2bhelpful: Yes, although the 1930's were a heady mix of surprising political directions and forces. People were shaken up and prepared to commit in all kinds of strange ways. The same generation had been through WW1 and the great depression after and era of long stability, especially in England.

                                                  • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 15:44
                                                    +1

                                                    @King Tightarse: Certainly the period between the wars was unstable politically and socially. Huge upheavals on the previous world order. Probably it all needed a bit of shaking up but it all got a tad untethered. It is interesting to look at the psychology of the mob. The ability to rationalise the unthinkable because everyone else is accepting it.

                • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 08:31

                  @drazenm: Start with a rational argument rather than emotional twaddle.

      • Pimpiticians 4 Life on 13/12/2023 - 00:55

        The Angles and the Saxons and the Jutes took the lands.

    • brotherfranciz on 12/12/2023 - 23:34
      +1

      He's partly Greek and Danish too, as his father was a Greek prince.

      • DashCam AKA Rolts on 12/12/2023 - 23:38
        +1

        …with barely two drachmas to rub together.

        • carrawa on 13/12/2023 - 05:43

          But served in WW2

      • prisonmike on 12/12/2023 - 23:45

        There’s a little bit of Asian in him too …

      • jv on 12/12/2023 - 23:58

        He played a mean bouzouki.

      • Pimpiticians 4 Life on 13/12/2023 - 00:07

        King Charles descendant of Vlad The Impaler.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1zcMeDAzc

        • jv on 13/12/2023 - 00:27

          King Charles descendant of Vlad The Impaler.

          Also a descendant of Ghandi…

    • mongos on 12/12/2023 - 23:51
      +1

      I've got a hunch that rewriting history has been happening throughout history

      • Wolfenstein98k on 13/12/2023 - 00:17

        Not according to anything I've read. Maybe I should reread

        • mongos on 13/12/2023 - 00:29
          +1

          You'll need to read the unwritten history to convince yourself 😂

    • jv on 12/12/2023 - 23:51
      -1

      Heil nazzcie King Charles

      His father was born in Greece.

      can always rewrite history

      I guess you can try and fail…

      • Elpres on 13/12/2023 - 03:34

        You can if you win.

  • Stormy123 on 12/12/2023 - 23:07
    +5

    Does it come framed? Free frame! 🤣

  • cook99 on 12/12/2023 - 23:10
    +20

    This looks like a new low in a waste of taxpayer money 😂

    • Larsson on 13/12/2023 - 00:11
      +8

      This.

      Look at this portrait and remember how we not only taxed you for this but also people are battling poverty while this guy lives a royalty for no reason and does nothing of value.

    • CptLeopold on 13/12/2023 - 09:55
      +1

      Its honestly baffling how the govt is comfortable wasting money on this garbage

      • cook99 on 13/12/2023 - 09:59
        +1

        It's not their money, they only are about reelection and keeping their cushy jobs and exorbitant benefits…

  • ilovefullprice on 12/12/2023 - 23:12
    +1

    I heard he spends a lot of money on food, he only eats the best and good food, which costs money.

  • try2bhelpful on 12/12/2023 - 23:14
    +1

    Ya do wonder who orders it? Frankly he seems to be a fairly reasonable bloke, he just shouldn’t be king of Australia.

    • callum9999 on 13/12/2023 - 00:22
      +1

      I'd challenge the suggestion that anyone who willingly takes up a position of dictator could really be called a "fairly reasonable bloke".

      If they were trying to dismantle it then I'd agree, but they're not. They're working to maintain their stolen wealth and privilege.

      • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 06:54
        -3

        He was ahead of the curve with environmental issues. Also I do admire a guy who threw over his beautiful wife for his homely mistress. It speaks of a better brain than eyesight.

        You are getting into the whole quagmire of inherited wealth. When you did down there is usually a certain amount of stolen wealth associated with that.

        • DashCam AKA Rolts on 13/12/2023 - 08:46

          …the guy who wanted to be a tampon.
          https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a41913184/tamp…

          • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 10:04

            @DashCam AKA Rolts: So what? I suspect lots of people have said embarrassing things to each other in private conversations. It was eavesdropped on and made public. Says more about the people who did that.

            • tooblue on 13/12/2023 - 10:23
              +1

              @try2bhelpful: If he was lots of people, no one would care. Is he willing to renounce everything he has to be lots of people?

        • tooblue on 13/12/2023 - 10:25

          Also I do admire a guy who threw over kill his beautiful ex wife for his homely mistress.

          An adultery admirer here.

          • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 12:26

            @tooblue: Conspiracy theory twaddle. Honestly you people.

            Not a great admirer of adultery but it is a refreshing change to see it isn’t about superficial attractiveness.

      • fraxinus on 13/12/2023 - 06:58
        +2

        I’d challenge the suggestion the position of monarch (not only in the UK but any modern European country) is anything remotely like a dictator. At best, you’re a few centuries behind the times.

        • try2bhelpful on 13/12/2023 - 07:04

          They are, largely, ornamental. However, as we saw in Australia in 1975, they may have powers that can bring down a Government. Also, as Morrison showed, the GG can sign in a Minister and it doesn’t need to be gazetted. Not a dictator but it can get murky, particularly when you talk about their representatives in another country.

        • callum9999 on 13/12/2023 - 10:57

          Challenge accepted. Explain how a leader that is imposed without the consent of the general public, without a way to be removed by the general public, who is exempt from following the same laws as the general public, who is actively involved in legislating those laws and whose approval must be granted for every law created is "not remotely like a dictator".

          I grant you that they voluntarily don't use much of their power (I can't speak for other European monarchies as I don't know what their powers are) and, given they're quite happy living in luxury from their centuries of ill-gotten wealth, are unlikely to rock the boat too much, but they retain absolute power.

        • jackspratt on 13/12/2023 - 12:28
          +2

          You are correct.

          A dictator is one who has complete control or power over a country.

          Charlie doesn't.

  • Alejandro on 12/12/2023 - 23:27
    +3

    Osama's mate?

  • freedomofspeech on 12/12/2023 - 23:30
    -2

    pedo

Login or Join to leave a comment
Login Join