Who cares if Australia wants to become a republic?
Some of us thought Australia already was a republic, writes Peter Rhodes.
The leader of Australia's Labor party, Welsh-born Julia Gillard, says that when the Queen dies it would be "the appropriate time" for Oz to become a republic, writes Peter Rhodes.
Some Australians genuinely believe this is a huge issue of pride for us Brits.
Some of them, I grieve to report, think that abandoning the Crown would be a fair dinkum way of sticking two fingers up at those whinging Poms.
So let us spell it out once again for the benefit of our friends Down Under.
Most of us Brits don't even know what a republic is.
Some of us thought Australia already was one.
And frankly we don't give a dingo's dungpile what you do, so long as you keep sending the lager.
Incidentally, why can't you lot spell Labour properly?
