• Aust. MP quizzes voters about constitution before they get a free Queen portrait
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Does booze get mentioned in the constitution? How about our Kiwi cousins? Not sure? Then your dream of snagging a Queen Elizabeth II poster from one federal MP could be in tatters. Victorian Richard Marles is fighting back against an avalanche of requests for royal merch by making people first pass a constitutional quiz. More than 100 people from Geelong and surrounds have demanded their little piece of Her Majesty after Vice Media highlighted a little-known scheme dishing out free "nationhood material" to people who ask their local pollie. The "nationhood material" includes flags, recordings of the national anthem and images of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. "If people really want a portrait of the Queen from my office they can have one, but are going to have to work for it," Mr Marles, a staunch republican, joked. "To gauge how genuine people are about celebrating Australia's head of state, they will need to answer some basic constitutional questions to receive one." The senior Labor MP will be playing constitutional quizmaster tomorrow afternoon out the front of his electorate office, but has kindly supplied all of the questions to the ABC in advance. Royally stumped? "Those who cannot answer these questions will receive a copy of the constitution instead (which people can also get from my office)," Mr Marles said. ... Other MPs running out of portraits to give away The good burghers of Swan (an electorate in Perth) have been so keen for the Queen their local MP has run out of portraits. "In the last few days I've received over 200 requests for a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen," Liberal MP Steve Irons said. "My office has been so inundated with proud royalists keen to collect a portrait of HM The Queen, that we're officially out of stock." And Labor MP Tim Watts, who is based in Melbourne's west, is firing back with "a bit of nationhood material of my own". "Some portraits of [retired Western Bulldogs captain] Bob Murphy and [former prime minister] Julia Gillard, some Australian Republican Movement membership forms and an invite to our Wattle Day barbeque at Williamstown beach," he told the ABC this week. Read the rest of the article, and take the Australian constitution quiz, at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-16/constitution-pop-quiz-for-queen-pics/10127884
https://youtu.be/PLl6Sv9tFSo?t=8
(he's from new zealand in canon)
We haven't been able to do the same over here in NZ, we were able to request material from the Governor General, but they just placed the NZ queen portrait online instead of provide hard copies. God Save the Queen https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107252/e044b43a-5f5d-432b-b853-8d56d1389bac/HM Queen of New Zealand.jpg
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