Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, and Peter FitzSimons all fancy themselves Australia’s next king. Not as a constitutional monarch with limited power or a prime minister bound by the grace of his ministers, but an absolute monarch from Europe’s faded realms where they could rule without the pesky interference of the plebs. If they cannot achieve it through a republic, these same characters will force the issue by subverting our democracy into a climate-flavoured Communist nightmare aided and abetted by COVID.

Only a foolish nation would grant the wish of partisan egomaniacs who swear at those beneath their feet.