My blog is on holiday today

Today is a public holiday in the parts of Australia that I live and I have travel commitments. So I’ll be back on Thursday. What is this holiday about?

Yes, it is deeply embarrassing but today is the King’s Birthday holiday in Australia that is meant to celebrate our glorious head of state, given that we are still legally tied to Britain and the King’s representative in Canberra can sack a democratically elected Australian government if he wants.

And of course it has happened before, cue the – 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis – which had nothing to a constitutional crisis and everything to do with the conservatives aided by the CIA and, finally, the Queen of England (as our head of state), disliking a progressive government that was threatening to take back control of American spy bases on Australian soil.

Here is our current head of state in all his glory.

And – Tampongate – aka as Camillagate was the King in his full glory.

And in Australia we apparently pay homage to this character as our head of state.

Anyway, it is the King’s Birthday holiday so he is useful for something.

The workers get a paid day off to have fun.

That is enough for today!

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