Dr P A Mcgavin

  • wants to volunteer 2024-10-10 15:55:30 +1100

    Handing out Australian Flags

    The First Visit of a King to Australia

    In two weeks’ time the King arrives in Australia and from information to date the King will be arriving in Sydney on Friday evening the 18th October and will be resting for much of Saturday the 19th and will probably travel to Canberra on Sunday the 20th. He will be in Canberra on Monday the 21st and then in Sydney on Tuesday the 22nd, leaving our shores for CHOGM in Samoa sometime on Wednesday the 23rd.

    We are therefore going to need volunteers to be available from the 19th to the 23rd October to be mobilised once the itinerary has been confirmed. Matthew and Scott are handling Canberra and John Macauley will be in charge in Sydney. We will be advising contact details to those who volunteer. The Sydney volunteers will be operating from John’s office in Glebe.

    Accordingly, if you have not already volunteered to assist, can you please give thought to doing so. 

  • Parliamentary Reception with General Sir Peter Cosgrove

     





    We invite you to join the Parliamentary Friends of the Australian Constitution chaired by the Hon. Rachel Merton MLC and the Hon. Rod Roberts MLC in celebrating the momentous visit of His Majesty King Charles III to Australia. This prestigious event will take place on Tuesday the 22nd of October 2024 in the Jubilee Room at NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney.

    The evening promises to be a remarkable occasion as we welcome the distinguished chief guest, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK CVO MC (Retd), whose presence will undoubtedly add to the grandeur of this celebration.

    We are delighted to be able to have an opportunity of sharing this historic event with you and honouring the significant relationship between Australia and the monarchy.

    COST:   $100.00 pp (includes canapes & 3 hour drink package).
    BOOK:  Below

    Please note that Their Majesties will not be at this reception.

    When
    October 22, 2024 at 6:00pm
    Where
    The Jubilee Room
    NSW Parliament House
    6 Macquarie Street
    Sydney, NSW 2000
    Australia
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    $100.00 AUD · 95 rsvps
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  • Petition to Protect Our Australian Way of Life

    Australians get to enjoy an amazing quality of life with family and friends.

    Our unique and long established Westminster system of government provides us with peace and prosperity, allowing us to enjoy time with family, privately help the less fortunate in the community, and invest for future generations.

    Australian Monarchist League is calling for a show of support from the Australian community to petition so we keep the current Australian Westminster system of government

    What makes Australia the best country on earth?

    People, families, and communities thrive in Australia. Where else in the world can citizens receive:

    Job and business opportunities
    Top level healthcare
    World class education
    Beautiful and diverse environment
    Security and regulation
    Affordable utilities
    Reliable infrastructure

    The Australian government provides us with all these things, it shows how efficient and effective our system of government is. 

    Why is the Australian government so successful while other countries struggle?

    The key difference is, Australia has its own unique Westminster system of government which contains a:

    Lower House
    (i.e. House of Representatives)
    Publicly elected
    Proposes policies and changes.

     

    Upper House
    (i.e. Senate)
    Publicly elected
    Reviews, approves and amends proposed policies and changes.

     

    Governor-General
    (i.e. Crown's Representative)
    Takes control in exceptional circumstances.
    Prime Minister can petition the Crown to dismiss the Governor-General.

     

    The Lower House proposes policies, and the Upper House reviews, approves and can amend the proposed policies.

    This two-step process distributes the power amongst the politicians and allows for constructive debate and solutions that satisfy the wider community.

    The Governor-General’s role is to ensure this political process is working.

    How is Australia now under threat?

    The republican lobby groups are pushing to replace the Governor-General with an elected or appointed head of state that will likely belong to one of the two major Australian political parties.

    If one political party held a majority in the lower house and upper house, and also held the head of state, that political party could exploit their position to remain in power uncontested.

    It would be the beginning of political corruption and the end of Australia as we know it. 

    Sign the petition to show your support in keeping the current Australian Westminster system of government.

  • Petition Calling on Republic MP to Retract Slur on Queen

    The Honourable Matt Thistlethwaite MP, Shadow Assistant Minister for Financial Services and Shadow Assistant Minister for the Republic, posted on Tuesday 14 July 2020 on his Facebook “Today’s release in full of the Palace Letters confirm that Australia needs to begin another serious discussion about an Australian as our head of state – an Australian who acts is the interests of our nation and its people, not beholden to the advice, influence and interests of a foreign power.” [meaning that the Queen acts in the interests of a ‘foreign power ‘ with the inference that she is, herself, a 'foreign power']. Mr Thistlethwaite has also publicly repeated his claims on television and elsewhere.

    Please sign this petition calling on Mr Thistlethwaite to retract his unfounded and quite blatantly wrong remarks relating to the Queen of Australia as being a foreign power. The Queen and her successors will always, without question or doubt, act in the interests of Australia.

     

     

  • answered 2020-06-07 17:26:59 +1000
    Q: Republicans want to remove The Queen’s Birthday Holiday. Please let us know whether you agree it should be removed (answer Yes) or whether it should stay as it is (answer No)?
    A: No

    Queen's Birthday Survey

     


    There are calls by republicans and others to replace The Queen’s Birthday Holiday with – we don’t know what.

    The holiday is Australia’s oldest public holiday instituted by Governor Arthur Philip in 1788. It is held in June or October in the case of WA & Qld, to suit the calendars within each State. Its purpose is to honour the Queen of Australia.

    We are looking for responses from as many people as possible to determine their views on this matter. We believe that most will be against change and the answers will bolster our arguments to retain the holiday.

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  • signed Funding for the ABC 2020-04-09 14:45:32 +1000
    The ABC needs rebuilding from the bottom up; Ita Buttrose has proved herself totally ineffective.

    Congratulating the Prime Minister

    Labor leader, Anthony Albanese has called on the prime minister to provide more funding to the ABC. The prime minister has rejected the call and should be congratulated.

    To the Prime Minister, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600

    I applaud your decision in dismissing the call from Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, to reverse the government’s funding freeze on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

  • signed ABC Refuses to Broadcast Queen's Message 2020-04-05 21:12:12 +1000
    It is unusual for Her Majesty to make such an address, and we should hear it in Australia, where we face the same challenges. The ABC is supposed to be a Public Broadcaster and not a lobby for change of our constitutional status. Let’s hear our Queen!

    ABC Refuses to Broadcast Queen's Message

    WE WON - THE ABC AIRED THE BROADCAST JUST PRIOR TO THEIR 7 PM NEWS ON MONDAY 6 APRIL.
    There is therefore no need to sign the petition, although, if you are new to the Australian Monarchist League, please consider signing up to receive our updates.

    The Queen's Message can be viewed here.

     

    Other than at Christmas, the Queen has made few televised addresses but she is to make an address to the Commonwealth tomorrow, Sunday 5 April 2020.

    However,our understanding is that the ABC is purposefully not broadcasting the message. We call on all monarchists to sign this online petition calling on the public broadcaster to air the message from the Queen of Australia to her people.

    I call on the Australian Broadcasting Authority to broadcast the message from the Queen which is to be released on Sunday 5 April, 2020.

Dr P A Mcgavin