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October 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Updated: 17:09, Friday October 28, 2011
It’s been a lovely visit.
Queen Elizabeth has charmed and delighted. The Duke of Edinburgh for the most part has behaved himself. And the public have turned out in good numbers to make sure the royal couple enjoy what may or may not be their 16th and last time in Australia.
There has been plenty of flag waving and cheering and many, many bouquets presented. (Most are passed onto nursing homes and hospitals across the country.)
There has been also a fair bit of curtseying – but not by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. And not that the Queen cared.
The main reason for the 10-day tour has been for the Queen to open on Friday the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) being held in Perth.
But before that she has spent time in Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne, mixing formal duties with a number of events where she was greeted by Australians young and old, eager to encounter royalty.
The Queen had audiences with Governor-General Quentin Bryce, Ms Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, attended a formal dinner, presented Royal Military College at Duntroon with new royal colours, and paid tribute to Australia’s fallen soldiers at the War Memorial, laying a wreath at the foot of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a short and solemn ceremony.
She also had lunch with a number of notable Australians – including Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, horse racing legend Bart Cummings, Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley and indigenous leader and activist June Oscar.
But she also managed to meet ordinary Australians as well.
In Canberra, she paid a special visit to Canberra’s annual flower show Floriade – albeit a couple of days after it finished.
The display was spruced up before the royal couple’s visit so they could enjoy the massive variety of ranunculus, Dutch iris, tulips, chrysanthemums and pansies still in bloom.
The Queen and Prince Philip made a spectacular entrance to Floriade from the lake after travelling by boat from Government House.
In Brisbane, they boarded another boat to travel down the Brisbane River before meeting what was the biggest crowd of their tour.
An estimated 45,000 well-wishers packed South Bank for the event, including dozens of children bearing everything from single blooms to large bouquets, and in one case a boomerang.
Eight-year-old Ben Conway, dressed up in a royal foot guard costume, complete with black bearskin hat, saluted the monarch with a beaming grin.
The Queen appeared at first not to acknowledge the boy, but later paused for a moment so they could have their photo taken together.
‘It was great. She smiled for a picture,’ the Daisy Hill boy told AAP.
The royal couple also met flood and cyclone victims at South Bank, including some still grieving for lost loved ones.
The Queen explained how she was greatly saddened as she watched the Brisbane River rise up to swallow vast swathes of the city, leaving terrible destruction in its wake.
‘The loss and destruction was harrowing to see, only for this to be followed by a cyclone,’ she told the crowd.
‘Nine months later, we are here to pay tribute to the resilience and courage of Queenslanders who bravely picked up their lives.’
In Melbourne, she did what all tourists and locals did and caught a tram to one of her events.
During her whirlwind four-hour stop in the city on Wednesday, the Queen officially opened the new Royal Children’s Hospital – almost 50 years after opening the original.
Miracle twins Trishna and Krishna, now four years old, began their lives as conjoined twins in Bangladesh and were separated by surgeons in a 27-hour operation at the old Royal Children’s in 2009.
Accompanied by their guardian Moira Kelly they laughed and chatted with Her Majesty after greeting her with well-rehearsed curtsies.
‘She was very, very genuine, you could really see her gentleness really and her deep concern,’ Ms Kelly said.
In Perth on Thursday, the Queen was surrounded by didgeridoos, AFL footballs and kangaroo stew as Aboriginal Australia took centre stage on her visit to an Aboriginal college.
After the formalities of CHOGM, the Queen and Duke will end their latest Australian tour with a community barbecue in Perth on Saturday.
Whether it’s the last time the Queen – who is 85 and marks 60 years on the throne next year – is in Australia is still not known.
But if she does come back, it seems there’ll be plenty of Aussies on hand to cheer her on.
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