Queen's Birthday

It was a bank holiday weekend this week in honour of the Queen's Birthday.....???

Banks, Schools and other businesses shut down for the day whilst cafe's and restaurants stuck a 10% holiday surcharge onto the bill. (whilst the staff were probably not getting paid anymore) all in honour of the Queen.

This from a country who's Prime Minister has openly said that he will put a referendum forward to the Australian people that the country should be a republic with an elected "President" as head of state in the next couple of years.

 

I wonder if the Australian people are a bit more attached to the Royal family than they would like to admit. They are certainly much more prominent in the news here than in the UK.

Well the holiday was quite nice none the less.