Australian Princess

I'm sitting here watching yet another reality tv show called Australian Princess. God knows what they win, who cares really? Somehow a reality show without an elimination element, personal challenges, tears and bitchslap-worthy judges, just isn't a reality show. Of course, they're clinging to the bootstraps of the real life story......

Australia's claim to royalty fame? A fairytale meeting in a trendy Sydney bar, leads to a romance between a Danish prince and a girl-next-door Sydney chick, eventually leading to marriage and world fame.

Ahem. Translated.

Danish prince, on the pull, meets horny Sydney chick at....wait for it....the 'Slip Inn'. They end up married, giving the entire of Australia a delusion of royal grandeur. One can only imagine (and shudder), about how many times the Australian press have referred to her as Cinderella.

Australia has a habit of doing this. Adopting people. Sports men and women, celebrities or indeed any person who can raise the profile of my dear country.
Lleyton Hewitt’s ex-girlfriend Kim Cluisters is Australia’s adopted daughter, after having dated Hewitt for a couple of years. Screw the adoption….give the girl a medal for putting up with that ignorant tennis brat.

Russell Crowe Australian? Think again. He’s a Kiwi. His passport is Kiwi. But aaaaah he lives in Australia now and, well, he sounds Aussie…….so we’ll have him thanks. Yet as soon as he...... say…….throws a telephone at a hotel concierge…….well, he is referred to as the ‘fiery New Zealander’.

I do love that about us Aussie’s. The ‘maybe they wont notice’ approach to things. The ‘if we say it with confidence they will believe it’ approach. I use it all the time with great results.

Getting back to the original argument, I find Australia’s infatuation with royalty saddening. We are still a constitutional monarchy, after (in 1999), 55% of the population voted to retain the monarchy over the creation of a Republic. Of course, Prime minister Howard voted to retain the monarchy, therefore practically sealing the fate of the referendum before a vote was cast. I guess I will always be a labour party supporter. I will always believe that the strength of a country lies in its people and its culture.


"It is needless to spend much time in exposing the folly of hereditary right. If there are any so weak as to believe in it, let them promiscuously worship the ass and lion, and welcome. I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion." Thomas Paine. Common Sense. Published 1776