Tall poppy Syndrome
Senior List
- Dec 31, 2018
- 245
- 575
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
The Queen is dead. Long live the King!
But Charlie 3! Really? We’ve seen that movie before and it never ends well. Though Charlie 2 could throw a party.
Well here’s a radical idea. The republican cause in this country seems in a perennial torpor and Gil’s about to be at a loose end. So why not just ditch Charlie, boot the Governor General, and install King Gillon at Yarralumla instead. All that’s required is a couple of tweaks to the old Consti and before you can say Pet-racker it’s done - Simples!
Because has there ever been anyone more to the manor born than Gil? Debonair and wears a black tie with dash. A natural around horses, and reportedly with a breeder’s eye for corgis. Outrageously talented on the ballroom floor with an effortless lilting motion to his waltz. Calm and collected in a pen crisis, and equally fluent with a fountain, quill or biro - no leaks from AFL House that I can recall.
He’s even got a high-profile spare with a natural disdain for the unwashed masses, a potential Prince Hamish of Great Southern Cross.
So put a crown on Gil’s head and his face on the coins. Just get it done!
But Charlie 3! Really? We’ve seen that movie before and it never ends well. Though Charlie 2 could throw a party.
Well here’s a radical idea. The republican cause in this country seems in a perennial torpor and Gil’s about to be at a loose end. So why not just ditch Charlie, boot the Governor General, and install King Gillon at Yarralumla instead. All that’s required is a couple of tweaks to the old Consti and before you can say Pet-racker it’s done - Simples!
Because has there ever been anyone more to the manor born than Gil? Debonair and wears a black tie with dash. A natural around horses, and reportedly with a breeder’s eye for corgis. Outrageously talented on the ballroom floor with an effortless lilting motion to his waltz. Calm and collected in a pen crisis, and equally fluent with a fountain, quill or biro - no leaks from AFL House that I can recall.
He’s even got a high-profile spare with a natural disdain for the unwashed masses, a potential Prince Hamish of Great Southern Cross.
So put a crown on Gil’s head and his face on the coins. Just get it done!
