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Free Portrait of HM King Charles III for Citizens of Australia by Request to Your Federal MP
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Kazusa on 28/07/2024 - 16:28 pmc.gov.au (12804 clicks)
Last edited 29/07/2024 - 10:54 by 1 other user
Last edited 29/07/2024 - 10:54 by 1 other user
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My bonnie cousin
🍿
One for the dart board
I'll order multiple copies to line my budgies' cages.
That’s insulting to them.
Sorry, under the rules you're supposed to be only entitled to one.
He can have mine.
Mine’s going in my throne room. 🚽
King Chuck the 'turd?
In your throne room? It is where it will do good service. Nothing will make any one sh*t quicker than the sight of King Charles.
No sausage fingers, no deal
I've been waiting for mine for months now :(
They only just finished painting the official portrait a few weeks ago. It's the rather iffy satanic red looking thing.
Edit: I just followed the link. Damn, it's a boring old photo that looks more like great uncle Rupert and his "friend" from the bowling club.
Aw. I'd almost kinda want one if it was the bloody one. That's a classic.
How did he earn all those medals? Must have been one heck of a brave soldier.
Inherited. Like everything that Charles has
There are actual soldiers out there with decoration. This is a kick in the face to them
Quick Google suggests he visited soldiers in Kosovo; Afghanistan. Other than that it seems honorary or figureheading.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the king should be on the ground. But he should also be undecorated.
@justtoreply: He was actually in the Navy. Pretty much every male monarch in Britain has served in the military.
He was actually in the Navy
and the army and the air force …
"In 2012, the late Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the highest rank in all three services - Field Marshal, Admiral of the Fleet and Marshal of the Royal Air Force."
what a man!
@c64: He's a qualified aircraft & helicopter pilot (has his RAF wings) & achieved command of a vessel during his time in the RN. He did the para course but doesn't have jump wings. He only did a few weeks of active duty & never served in a conflict unlike his sons but there's a bit more to old Charlie than most people think.
@alphas: He did break tradition & went to university first instead of directly into the military from high school.
@Bruceflix: Good for wherever you are from. But terrible idea.
High profile hostage target, who then need to be rescued by other people.
But he should also be undecorated.
Cool story.
So he should give back his service medals for the time he did actual service? Does this apply to all service medal holders or just the ones you don't like?
@1st-Amendment: You didn't read the thread properly then did ya buddy. I'll not bother to reply to you again
@1st-Amendment: lmao how is a simp for the US constitution defending the British royal family? what is happening?
Interesting that 3 of them are issued by/for/with respect to (the Monarch of) New Zealand. Wasn't expecting that.
Tbh. Any soldier after Vietnam isn't brave either.
I don't know how people consider killing Afghan civilians for 20 years, then losing to them brave.
I don't know how
That's ok, you'll figure it out one day when you're older…
He plays Battlefield 2…
i think you meant to say he gets someone to play for him
And he was born with the "infinite lives" cheat code.
Roblox
Here's the official list, I'd love to hear which one of these you think he doesn't 'deserve'?
Queen's Service Medal
Coronation Medal
Silver Jubilee Medal
Golden Jubilee Medal
Diamond Jubilee Medal
Platinum Jubilee Medal
Naval Long Service Good Conduct Medal
Canadian Forces Decoration
New Zealand Commemorative Medal
New Zealand Armed Forces Award
Garter StarAll of them
To be fair, his mom gave him the first one. I used to get a gold star sticker too when I did something good.
So a bunch of medals for being born. Slow clap.
New Zealand has Armed Forces?!?!
Reminds me of that Bill Burr bit about people who get let on planes first… "have you seen action!"
Lucky sperm club.
I believe all of HM’s portraits are automatically printed on 3-ply.
Bit shiny though.
You deserve better, don’t do that to your butt.
I'm sure that is far from the worst thing that user has done & will do to their butt.
Really do we pay with our tax for this crap?
You're paying either way whether we get this or not. So who cares. There's no f's given and zero accountability for tax money in this country for the last 2 decades anyways.
That's kind of not how taxes work. If the demand goes up, so does the claim for a bigger slice of the budget the following year.
I presume the demand for looking good overseas goes up too so we hand more millions overseas too as we have lots of money to share
Far out I thought we have way more ways to spend our money in benefit of our people. Not some old fella picture that represents nothing in nowadays Australia society that is so sad.
When is the next republic referendum? Can't wait.
It'll never get up.
That's what she said
I have no affection for the monarchy, but I don't necessarily trust us to pick our own head of state. Culturally we're closest to the US and look at the mess they have.
USA is a better country in every way. Except for woke culture.
If it weren't for them, we'd be annexed by Indonesia, India or China.
We should honestly just be an unincorporated territory like Guam
@Degeneracy: I can think of a hell of a lot of ways US citizens are significantly worse off than Australian citizens.
Healthcare would be a good starting point. Your statement isn’t ground in any sort of fact or reality.
For clarity: I’m not at all suggesting Australia is better in every way or even a “majority” of ways. Just that saying the “US is better in all ways” is utter garbage.
I'd be more mad about politicians salaries/entitlements & the amount of money they piss away on frivolous excess & vanity projects trying to get reelected than a few 1000 portraits being printed for boomer monarchists.
How many ply is it..and how many sheets per roll?
Annibyniaeth
I can envisage lots of these at the local paintball place
Guess the dart board is sorted now.
the ears are only worth 1 point.
No deal, they look like a Monthy Python rip-off
Would prefer a Portrait of jv in the penalty box
How’s this a deal?
Why would govt even consider wasting tax money on such stupid things?
Still waiting to hear about when they'll update our currency with his mug on them too lol
Already been in circulation for a couple of months now.
Because officially he's the head of state of Australia.
@ DrScavenger
Because officially he's the head of state of Australia.
Exactly. Like it or not.
And when we had the chance to do something about it (in 1999), we fumbled the ball.
Even yesterday, in his cabinet reshuffle, Albanese abolished the Assistant Minister for the Republic cabinet position. So much for Labor policy and principles on the republic.
I don't understand why we voted to keep monarchy. It's archaic. It's not even "our" monarch.
@DrScavenger: It is extremely difficult to change Australia's constitution; one of the hardest in the world.
Combine this with very selective and canny wording of the proposed constitutional change (by a government which did not want a change), a highly effective scare campaign, and most Australian's innate conservatism, failing to pass did not surprise me.
A better approach would have been to conduct a plebescite first, with a simple yes/no question: Should Australia have its own head of state? A 'no' would have ended the question for a few decades. But almost certainly this would be a 'yes'. Nearly every poll, for 30 years, to today, has indicated a broad community support for the concept of an Australian head of state.
A 'yes' then could have led to a proper constitutional convention, with specific alternate proposals, which could ultimately be put to a referendum.
However, Mr Howard was oh-so-smart, in forcing an immediate watered-down referendum question which didn't appeal to die-hard republicans, but also offerred basically no change anyway. From memory, only the ACT registered a 'yes' (and it would not have counted anyway, as a referendum needs a majority of the states, and ACT isn't a state. LOL).
This flawed process has been justified ever since as it being 'too hard', which has sadly been confirmed as recently as yesterday by the removal of the Assistant Minister for the Republic position by a Labor government. (A party, by the way, which has had a pro-republic policy for most of its existence. Sigh.)
Shorter answer, TL;DR: Our system makes it incredibly hard to change the constitution, and the right side of politics is very clever at highlighting largely baseless fears about 'instability', political chaos, etc. A majority of Australians fall for this, time and again. Thus, we get what we deserve.
@DrScavenger: From memory it was because the alternative offered might have been even worse. They wanted a 'republic' but were pretty sketchy on the details like what for would it take? Who would get to define that form? etc. It came down to the the politicians saying 'trust us' so no wonder it got voted down/didn't happen. Also it's proponents didn't really have a well thought out vision of what such a republic would look like nor what the benefits to us landless peasants would be. They were simply relying people's emotional reaction to the monarchy (fair enough I'm not big on it either) and that was not enough to gain people's trust or enthusiasm.
Well I didn't vote for him!
All our government does is waste money. At my university they have 30 (profanity) 4090 computers at least. My school had 5 tvs that were used for showing static images. And not to forget the 50 million dollar referendum that everyone knew was going to fail.
Yet for all the tax we pay, and how unaffordable Sydney is, it still takes 5 years to build half a (profanity) metro.
All our government does is waste money
It's true that the government is terribly inefficient at spending money, but the really funny part is people then demand that the government get involved in more things. Truly remarkable mental gymnastics of the average voter…
A lot of the money that the government wastes goes back into the Australian economy. The alternative is to have the private sectors providing the services - and they will cost just as much and then hoard or offshore the profits. The only government waste that we really should be concerned about is when they outsource it to their mates.
What might seem like gymnastics for some can seem as simple as walking to others.
Oh I think you've confused regular gymnastics with mental gymnastics which sort of demonstrates my point. Unlike regular gymnastics, mental gymnastics is actually very simple, so simple that most people do it without even knowing it.
We can easily test this hypothesis. You made the claim " The alternative is to have the private sectors providing the services - and they will cost just as much and then hoard or offshore the profits"
Can you provide any real-world examples when this has happened? Because we have plenty of counter examples (ie Communism) which all failed miserably.
I believe this is just honouring an existing tradition /protocol which dates back to an era when people actually gave a shit about royalty. It would be interesting to an uptake comparison from, say QE to Charles.
It would be interesting to an uptake comparison from, say QE to Charles.
Or to Thailand.
Who?
They have the internet on computers now.
A what now?……sorry I grew up in the inner city…….
waste of taxpayer money
Thanks upvoted.
Waste of paper
Looks like his suit is stuffed with paper. (And her face is made of sandpaper.)
Just what nobody asked for, nor need.
That's about 90% of the stuff on OzBargain :P
Yes please Charles