Governor-General Sir John Kerr, invoked still-disputed constitutional rights to sack the popularly-elected Prime Minister Gough Whitlam

It put the frighteners in here, too, and had everyone scrambling for their Constitutional Law books to find out if the NZ Governor-General might be able to do the same thing. But it turned out that ours have absolutely no function except to act as a Head of State. It's beyond me why any country would want to become a republic - Governor-Generals are cheap!

Oz and Zild are like a pair of battling brothers. Slag each other off all the time, put the boot in when no one's looking, steal each other's toys (and pavalovas and race horses), but an external threat still has us back to back ... I don't believe that will change any time soon.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...