Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I take your point, and I won't continue along that vein, because it really didn't matter whether it was a lovely and wonderful person in that position or not. I mean, either you believe that all people are born free and equal or you don't—and if you put a monarch on your coin, it means you don't.

Every country on Earth that I know of, whether it's France, the United States, Japan or wherever, has the sovereignty of their people in their constitution. We have in our constitution that we should swear our allegiance to a foreign monarch. Those of you who read history books will know—and I don't want to get carried away with myself, but I did have a moderately bestselling history of Australia!—that you really should have democracy. It's really wonderful that the Americans start off their constitution the way they do— (Time expired)

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