• Australian MPs bombarded with requests by taxpayers for free portraits of Queen
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https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/226043/a64cb31c-3190-4779-80c7-53c07dd5e161/F296327F-FB84-4D3C-8C94-DA718EF2B89D.jpeg It’s a great Australian tradition borne of our parliamentary system – contacting your local MP to complain about bin collections and unsavoury property developments next door. But it turns out that parliamentarians’ real obligation to Australian voters is to be the nation’s least-known but best-stocked royal merchandiser. Under the bizarre quirk, constituents can ask for certain “nationhood material” under the “constituents’ request program”. The best-known obligation is to provide Australian flags, which MPs’ offices have dutifully complied with many years. But the program also extends to other material, such as recordings of the national anthem, and portraits of Queen Elizabeth. An article in the the online magazine Vice this week highlighted the little-known parliamentary code and has sparked a flurry of requests to MPs. “As a good constituent and apparent royalist, I sent an email to my MP, Andrew Hastie, and requested Liz’s portrait,” Vice’s Nicholas Lord wrote. “While I was initially told his office was out of stock – I apparently wasn’t the first Western Australian to want Elizabeth on my wall – three weeks later I had my portrait, along with some complimentary Aussie flags for good measure.” Portraits of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, are also available. Tim Watts, the Labor MP for Gellibrand and a republican, said he had received dozens of “tongue in cheek” requests for a portrait since the Vice story. “I love my constituents. They have responded to this article in that Australian tradition of taking the piss,” Watts said on Sky News, while brandishing various portraits of “Her Madge”. Read more at Head of state
I wonder if I can ask for a solid gold bust of Lizzie.
Fuck it, what are they gonna do, say no? Give it a shot mate. For her Madge and Country.
“I love my constituents. They have responded to this article in that Australian tradition of taking the piss,” Watts said on Sky News, while brandishing various portraits of “Her Madge”. Australia is incredible
How the bloody fuck did you get that picture of me, fuck off
I am sick of this picture, we do not drinking fucking fosters
As I always say, you can tell that an Australian drew that picture; because trying to convince the world that we drink fucking Fosters is the ultimate Australian shitpost
Fosters tastes like literal piss.
I legitimately think an American drew it due to them historically all thinking we drink fosters.
I think we can request one here in Canada as well, as in like every Canadian is entitled to one portrait or something. I wonder if New Zealand or South Africa have anything similar.
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I heard all we get now is a digital photograph for free. I think we have to pay for a physical portrait now. Order or Download a Portrait
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