Jim Brodie added on 2/9/08
Hi Michael Sorry for the delayed reply,. I've been painting, my house, baseboards and more undercoating. This is fun. If the show is going to tour England I suppose we would have to think about reconfiguring Australia to reflect both our new post colonial status and use icons with which the Poms are familiar. This could mean Dame Edna as our new President for Life. Perhaps the Minister for Sport and Women's Rights could be the Warnie. We could change the coat of arms to have a Sporting Hero and heronine instead of a roo and an emu. There was an article in the Sunday mail this weekend about all of the animals in Australia which are now extinct, and those facing extinction like some kinds of wallabies and kangaroos. I think this is a good example of our settler culture's ability to improve on nature. I mean what have kangaroos ever done for Australia, aside from Skippy and the one on all of the Quantas planes. The coat of arms could be renewed aftyer every Olympics year via a referendum to get new sporting heros on the coat of arms. To bring Australia into line with the rest of civilisation we have to look at creating two , or three new countries oon the coninent. Look an all of the other continets like the Americas, Asia and Europe. Ther are all kinds of countires on each continent. Lets reconfigure Australia. We could have a New North Downunder based on what used to be QLD, the NT, and WA. We could include the top of SA and NSW. I mean really Byron Bay and Kingcliff have good beaches and music festivals so they really should be part of our new nation. I think the quality of life in Queensland deteriorated when the Commonwealth forced us to amalgamate the Qld Army and Naval Brigade into the ADF. Now all of the southerners are coming up here and forcing up house prices and land values. Noosa and the Gold Coast are like trendy suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne. This has to stop. We could then have Old Australia which could be VIC, southern NSW and Tasmania. This could also be called the Rustbucket. The only problem with this would be running two national Rugby League and AFL competitions and the fact that citizens of New North Downunder would have import their leatherwood honey from the Rustbucket. I know the Holden plant is in one of the southern states but we could develop a downundermobile which is totally solar (for the Greenies) or nuclear powered (keep the miners onside). Well there are my most recent thoughts on this great question. PS Do you have an email contact for Ant Sullivan?
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