and we're climbing a stairway to kevin...

the kevin07 team mentioned something about becoming a republic (pre-election campaign, obviously, they couldn't fit anything about working families in there) and i'm wondering about the changes it will involve. who will go on the head side of our coins or on the five dollar? will we have a new national anthem? will they get a new flag or just take out the union jack? amd most importantly, who will decide these things? i for one am in favour of switching to the aboriginal flag. and teaching the local aboriginal language at school instead of french or italian which is totally impractical. obviously if you live in england you can just pop over to france for the weekend but the average australian won't go much further than bali. though the average australian doesn't want to have anything to do with the aboriginals anyway. god, i can not wait to get out of this hell hole.