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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Costs of royal travel are also paid by Australia, reportedly about £650,000
for the Queen’s 2011 visit and £200,000 for a visit by The Prince of Wales
in 2005.
Supporters of Australia becoming a republic seized on the reports, saying they
demonstrated the need to end the country’s “kowtowing” to the
British monarch.
“On their own they are reasonably small costs in relation to overall
government expenditure,” Australian Republican Movement chairman
Michael Keating told The
Herald Sun newspaper.
“But if people are unhappy about these quite bizarre costs, if we want to
stop kowtowing and giving these funnily funded gifts, we want to get to the
real issue which is becoming a republic.”
Supporters of the monarchy said the Queen should not be expected to pay for
the gifts – and nor would a president of any future Australian republic.
The reports about Australians paying for the royal gifts drew an irate public
response, with an online poll finding 84 per cent opposed “fork[ing]
out for gifts presented to our leaders by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh”.
“She is one of the richest women in the world,” said one comment
posted on the Herald Sun website. “I can’t comprehend how Aussie
taxpayers should get lumbered with the bill for her giveaways. A gift is a
gift and it should be given away freely, not with an underhanded “provided
by the Australian Taxpayer” sticker.”
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