Keating says High Time to get rid of QEII

Ex Prime Minister, Paul Keating, criticises the Rudd Government’s lack of a clear message for the Australian public. In an interview on the 7.30 Report, he identified three themes that were as important now as they were in the mid 1990s when they were sidelined by the Howard Government. One of these was “to get rid of QEII” and bring in the Republic – and he didn’t mean the ship. Keating also said you can’t go around Asia saying you have borrowed the monarch of another country as your head of state. He urged the current federal Government to take time to think about the future.