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kiwikrasher wrote:

duke63 wrote:The Crown land, is I think different to the Royal Family's personal wealth.

The Crown Estate owns 1/6th of all the land in the world.

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But that ownership is a technicality.. commonwealth ownership of sovereign lands.

It’s not actually viable assets.

A quick referendum and a big chunk of that is gone. Australia last had a monarchy vs republic referendum in 1999. It was 5.2 mil for republic and 6.4 mil for monarchy. I reckon 22 yrs down the track that might be a bit different.

A recent poll also suggests increasing popular support for a republic. According to the YouGov poll, 62% of Australians said they wanted the head of state to be an Australian.

D41 wrote:I'm not exactly sure what "this current generation" actually is, but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you mean the younger generation...??

The first three polls that google just pulled up for me all indicate that support for the Royal Family still hovers over the 50% mark... although admittedly the figures have dropped a few points recently.
Only around a quarter of people polled...26% in this instance, want them gone completely. The people polled ranged in age between 15 & 49 years old.
Is that the generation you were going on about, or did I miss one?

kiwikrasher wrote:A quick referendum and a big chunk of that is gone. Australia last had a monarchy vs republic referendum in 1999. It was 5.2 mil for republic and 6.4 mil for monarchy. I reckon 22 yrs down the track that might be a bit different.

A recent poll also suggests increasing popular support for a republic. According to the YouGov poll, 62% of Australians said they wanted the head of state to be an Australian.

Monty wrote:
....... and in the 1960s, 70s, 80s it would have been something like 70% or 80% support for the royal family. I didn't check those numbers with Google,

D41 wrote:

Monty wrote:
....... and in the 1960s, 70s, 80s it would have been something like 70% or 80% support for the royal family. I didn't check those numbers with Google,

So, instead of the @ 50% figures that I found and DID check, you decided that "70% or 80%" probably sounded plausible enough and ran with those numbers anyway..?? That's great.

duke63 wrote:Reckon she will make Christmas?

Cav wrote:Seems that way doesn't it