‘The key thing I wish to say today, is we are putting the band back together.’ Thus spoke Peter FitzSimons, as he and his old pal Joe Hockey announced their renewed push for an Australian republic. Which is very probably the best possible thing that’s ever happened to Australia: our two most beloved public figures forming a coalition for ‘an independent sovereign nation’—to wrest us at last from the tyrannical rule of Queen Elizabeth II.
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