After the Second World War, the pound and the dollar were the two designated reserve currencies under the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, and that just about made sense because most of the Commonwealth was in the sterling area.
Because if the commonwealth of Australia can do that then we can do it... what makes it more real?" Staying real, Murrumu recently won another small step on the road to commonwealth and Queensland recognition of Yidindji nationhood when a local church school accepted a Yidindji birth certificate to enrol his son.
While the notion of a republic with its connotation of government by the people, and with its connotation of freedom to choose any and everybody, may seem attractive, I believe that we, in Australia, have no less freedom to choose who governs us because we are part of the Commonwealth with a monarch as figurehead.
Hiding details of asylum seeker boat turnbacks from the Australian public was essential in order to protect the security of the commonwealth, because it helped "educate … potentially illegal immigrants", the head of Operation Sovereign Borders has said at a landmark legal case.
"If some of you mongrels were any good, the issues David Walter is raising like sovereign debt and currency fraud, banking welfare, and blatant disregard of the laws of the commonwealth because only you shitbags or one of the forty thousand thieves can prosecute for breaches, would be addressed".
In it, he wrote: "Neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.
Although not a politician, Ismay was well-suited for the position because of his close relationships with the leaders of the commonwealth countries, largely the result of his work during the war.
Members of the Commonwealth accredit high commissioners to each other.
Two areas of the commonwealth believe it is.
He is secretary of the commonwealth, not attorney general.
After 1947 the use of the expression was abandoned because it was thought in some quarters to imply a form of subordination, and the phrase "members of the Commonwealth" came into use.
