Monarchy. Is it bad?

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Pyro as Bill said:

blkfish92 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

blkfish92 said:
We have to look back at the past to get some vague answers.

Most empires raped/pillaged/stole/enslaved before the British came along. The British empire actually aquired the CEO of the Dutch empire and let him run things based on mercantilsm instead of outright theft. Spain was the last example of an 'old' empire.

The french attempted empire but lost Canada and the US to either Brits or free USasians. The remnants of the french empire include such shiholes as the Ivory Coast and  other 'backward' african countries (no offence). The ex-British empire has Zimbabwe but people forget that Zimbabwe and the rest of the southern Africa continent was perfectly able to feed itself (and feed the rest of Africa) although credit should go the Dutch for this.

Well with Empires, wasn't it greed that made them destroy themeselves?

No, it was usually independence or a better empire that came along. I don't think British greed was why Australia wished to become independent.

Tea tax in America actually lowered taxes. It was the black market that was so upset and caused a tea-party.

During World War 1 and 2 it was viewed by many Australians that... If Britain goes to war then so does Australia.

After the Japanese had taken control of the Pacific and defeated the British at Singapore, for the first time it was seen that the British couldn't Protect us so we sought closer ties to the United states in preperation for a Japensese invasion that never happened. (It's argued that they couldn't, controlling a continent so vast would have required allot of resources.)

Over the next century the British started to make it's colonies more autonimous and independent, we became independent from the British in 1986.
Queen Elizibeth is still our Monarch but we no-longer have to answer to the British or the Queen.

After we became independent we tried to remove the Queen as our Monarch, however the population loves the queen and was thus retained as our Monarch.
During this time Australia was discovering it's national image, it's rare to have a country that is under-pinned from so many racial backgrounds and history to actually get along and live together in peace, this was probably helped by Government policies pinning freedoms for everyone regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation.
 
Also, if you wish to look at the lowest-paid wages, Australia eclipses the British in those departments, the Americans to. Our Minimum wage is twice that of the US.
During the financial Crisis we were one of the only "advanced" economies to avoid recession; as we started creating stronger ties with China, we entered the financial crisis with money in the bank, not debt which probably helped us get around the worlds financial troubles with significant infrustructure spending to create jobs and not bailing out failing companies. - They were allowed to fail so that capatalism would continue to work and create new companies to create new jobs.