Reg Watson

70th Anniversary of the Queen’s reign

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The 6th February 2022 was the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, being proclaimed Queen. She was a young married woman of 26 years of age, born in 1926.  March 6th is not the date that she was crowned. The coronation would come later, 2nd June 1953 in Westminster Abbey. Her first visit to Tasmania occurred in February 1954 when she was invited to open the Tasmanian Parliament. The Queen was accompanied by her husband, The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip.

The Queen was the first child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She did not expect to become monarch so soon, if ever.  She was third in line, after her uncle, Edward, The Prince of Wales and her father, the Duke of York.  She and Philip married 20th November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.  The Duke died 9th April 2021, three months shy of his 100th birthday. Who could forget the lonely figure, clad in black, mourning alone?  The Queen had been informed that it was not necessary, but she chose to adhere to the same regulations that had been imposed upon her people.  We have seen it was not the case for many politicians obeying the same rules which they themselves decreed.

What dramatically intervened in her life was the Constitutional crises involving Edward the Prince of Wales and Mrs Wallis Simpson. The affair ended in controversy when Edward, the king, but not crowned, abdicated in 1936. This meant that his younger brother George had the throne forced on him, a role he had not preferred to have inherited. It was Shakespeare who said, “some have greatness thrust upon them”. The reluctant Prince, then known as Albert, proved to be a great king.

The King did not enjoy good health and underwent an operation and afterwards appeared though weak, fitter. His illness continued and it was obvious he was dying of cancer. At this time Princess Elizabeth and the Duke had two young children, Charles and Anne. For a number of months the King prevailed. On the 31st January 29t 1951 the King waved goodbye to his daughter and son-in-law from the London Airport. They were off to a tour of East Africa.  In the small hours of 6th February 1952 the King died.

The young couple were enjoying a stay at a hunting lodge, a wedding present from the inhabitants of Kenya, when the news of the death of her father, was received. She had planned to move on to Australia and New Zealand, but she immediately drafted apologies herself. One vital chore she had, as now monarch, was to declare as Queen, how she would be known. Her full name is Elizabeth Alexandra May.  Her title would now be Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

In 2022, she is also the Queen of 14 Commonwealth Countries and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations.  He has the title, “Defender of the Faith”.

By the time of her crowning in June 1953 she was the celebrated monarch of nearly a quarter of human beings then living on earth.  She was crowned against the setting of Handel’s, Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet.

Australia’s first l visit of the royal couple was when they arrived into Sydney 3rd February 1954 and later, on Saturday 20th February 10:30 am, the royal yacht Gothic berthed into Hobart where their hectic and extensive tour of Tasmania began. Upon arrival they were met and addressed by the Lord Mayor of Hobart, Sir Richard Harris and Lady Harris, at the Town Hall. It was on the Monday that Her Majesty opened the fifth session of the 30th Parliament of Tasmania, which was followed by a Garden Party at Government House. The media on the day said that 150,000 people lined the city streets as the royal couple proceeded from Parliament House to Government House. On the way in Stoke Street, a little Dutch girl, Jeltje Folkerts, in national costume, was waiting with a bouquet of roses as a tribute of loyalty from the New Australians.  The Queen’s car halted, the Queen leaned over and accepted the bouquet with a warm smile.

On the Tuesday they departed from Cambridge aerodrome to fly to Wynyard and from there visited, Burnie, Ulverstone, Devonport and Launceston.  They flew out of Western Junction aerodrome to Essendon, for Melbourne and for elsewhere.

It was part of a six month tour, so that the new Queen could meet her people world-wide.

The Queen is now 95 years old.  Her reign has seen dramatic changes throughout Australia and the world.  She has served faithfully for 70 years, making her not only the longest serving British monarch, but the longest serving monarch in the world.

Many of the years have not been easy for her, but she has endured through the ability to see things through, to sacrifice herself and dedicate her life to her people, not to governments, but to her people.

  • Reg A. Watson is a Tasmanian author and historian and Tasmanian Convener of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.

Pic:  Author of the article, Reg Watson, with a “”Opening of Parliament by The Queen” (1954) brochure published by the Tasmanian Government. It was presented to him by the late Dr George Howatt, an American political scientist who made his home in Tasmania.  Dr Howatt was the world’s leading expert on the voting system of the Hare-Clark.

Australia Day 2022

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Australia Day has its origins two hundred and thirty four years ago. It was when 1500 souls left England for a perilous journey to an unknown land and future. To arrive at their destination 15,000 miles of sailing to the east coast of Australia lay before them. It took eight months to do so, a feat for which Governor Arthur Phillip should be admired.

A form of celebration to remember the event was held as early as 1817. From thereon, the day knew various names, such as Anniversary Day and Foundation Day. In 1931 Victoria adopted the name Australia Day and in 1946 the Australia Day Council was formed in Melbourne to foster national appreciation of the day’s signifigance.

Those involved in the momentous expedition in 1788 were diverse although three out of every four was a convict. Others included officers, marine, crew, women and children. How many actually finally made it to Botany Bay 18th January before moving on to Sydney Cove Port Jackson, January 26th 1788 is debatable. Sixteen of the 1500 died before the First Fleet actually left Portsmouth, England and during the voyage twenty two children were born with several dying. It is recorded that forty convicts died during the journey while others fell overboard and some even escaped. There were numerous accidents. Taking into account all the factors that could have happened and perhaps should have happened the mortality rate was surprisingly modest. It was a well thought out and organised expedition, far better than the Second Fleet when 280 convicts died with another 200 convicts dying on the Third Fleet.

After leaving Portsmouth, the fleet sailed first to Rio de Janeiro, Portuguese Brazil, then on to Cape Town, South Africa to replenish food supplies. Following was the crossing of the Indian Ocean, finally to Port Jackson. One can only imagine the suffering of the convicts.

Landing was a relief, but it was just the start of the challenges that lay before these people. Governor Phillip immediately got everyone working. Male convicts began to clear the land and erect shelters. Construction then work began on the barracks, governor’s house and a hospital. Phillip’s problems were immense. Upon settlement, glaring neglect showed. For instance there was insufficient female clothing. A list of convicts and their crimes and when they were to be released did not exist. He found there were not enough balls or cartridge papers for the armaments. Then there was human nature which he had to deal with such as officers arguing amongst themselves, fighting between convicts and sailors and theft. Before him were the unknown land and how to feed, protect and shelter everyone and how to administer the law and how to implement it. The list went on and on. Yet in November 1791 Phillip could write to Lord Sydney in London, “I can still say with great Truth and equal Satisfaction that the Convicts in general behave better than could be expected.”

Within seven years, food shortages had given way to a relative bounty. In 1795 the main crops had met the colony’s needs with more than 2000 farm animals being grazed which included cows, cattle, sheep and goats. It was a marvellous achievement and Australians should be proud of this fact.

Australia Day belongs to every citizen of this country, whether we are been here in excess of 10,000 years, more than two hundred years, post war or a recent arrival. It is a day where politics is tossed aside. Aboriginal activist and politician, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price recently said, she is “proud to celebrate this day regardless of background and who are not ashamed of our nation’s history or all we have achieved together”.

That achievement is something that should be highlighted. Success just does not just happen; it has to be worked towards with great effort and fortitude. On January 1st 1901 a new country was born when the six independent colonies federated into one. Over the many years the strides towards a vibrant, liberal democracy which is the envy of the entire world, hence the demand, more than we can absorb, to come this land down under and make it home.

Australia Day is the day for barbecues, sports and a time of reflection, that while no country is perfect and that no people are either, we can put our differences aside and act as one on this special day, this day of celebration.

Freedom Rally Hobart November 2021

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It was way back in September 2020 when I addressed one of our first gatherings.  Now in November 2021 we are still fighting. Australia is a police state where our freedoms have been taken away.  This is the new RESET as stated by Klaus Scwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and according to him we are all going to be happy and own nothing.  Well, we know who is going to owe everything – the Globalist elite.

Australia is a country where those in charge, Police Commissioners, so-called health experts, political advisors and Premiers instruct us to inform and pimp on our fellow citizens – all for our own good; all in the name of fighting the spread of Covid-19. We now have a two tiered citizenship, those who are vaxxed and those who are not vaxxed.  Perhaps the latter should go around with a yellow star sewn to their breasts.  This is in spite of the fact that Section 51 (22A) of the Australian Constitution forbids forced medical procedure.

The Premiers have become power drunk showing no compassion and no understanding. Our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, does nothing. He said as a federalist he will not intervene with what is happening in State affairs and that he has no power to do so, regardless just a fortnight ago, his  own senator, Amanda Stoker, said the Commonwealth can interfere if it chooses to.   Morrison does not lead when he should. Is he just too weak or is he a willing part of the whole decaying system? 

I never thought I would see Australia come to this.  Like many, many Australians, my father put his life on the line fighting tyranny in North Africa during WWII.  His father, my grandfather, went to an earlier war as well.  He survived, but three of the family died during WWI, – as said – many did.  But we must ask ourselves?  What was it all for? We live in a world that is beyond imagining a few years ago.  A country where police brutally bash fellow citizens while being selective on who can hold demonstrations and who cannot. But good things can come from bad.  Those police black shirts who shot that man in Melbourne five times, now are facing legal proceedings and they will be publicly named and hopefully shamed, as well as who authorised the shootings of our own people. A number of the police have forgotten their oath and have become nothing but agents of the government.

Too few politicians have stood up in the defence of the people and of our freedoms. The majority will do what their Party tells them to do. This is the weakness of the party political system. Why do we keep voting for the same old parties?  Liberal/Labour/National and the Greens?  After all they are the ones who have destroyed this nation of ours.  They are all globalists, believing in the One World Government. They have been taken up on the mountain and have sold their souls. In the meantime the people suffer, suicides are up, mental health is up, bankruptcies are up, businesses close down and people struggle financially.  Kids can’t play in the parks.  Curfews. What nonsense is this? And we are all forced to have the jab. Families cannot visit each other, cannot attend funerals and children are separated from their parents. People cannot attend religious services.  This is crazy and callous.

What was it that ex-President of the USA, Ronald Reagan said, “the most dangerous ten words in the English language are, ‘I am from the government, I’m here to help you’.’’  Governments are not here to help us, they are here to entrench their own power, which is always at the expense of the people. I recall the section in the bible, when the people screamed and demanded to have government run by mortals. It was the prophet Samuel who warned them of the dangers awaiting them. (1 Samuel 8). Fellow prophet Jeremiah was to write, “The heart is wicked above all things, who can know it?” (17:9). And so it is with human nature – not to serve, but to be served.  Those we elected do not seem to understand why they are there.  They are there to serve us; we are not here to serve them. We are their employers, we pay their wages.

Our massive and tireless efforts are having effect, not just in Australia, but throughout the world. We have seen the huge demonstrations in Melbourne, bigger than I have ever witnessed and I can remember the anti-Vietnam demonstrations.  Premier Dan Andrews called such concerned citizens, “extremists” and “that is not democracy”.  Is he joking?  He has constantly destroyed any concept of democracy in Victoria.  Now Prime Minister Morrison (at long last) says that State governments have to back up on taking away people’s freedom.  But where have you been Mr Morrison over the last 20 months?  They are finally waking up that people are fed up and are angry and it may affect how we vote – and that is all they are interested in….how it will affect them.

We have entered a new era, a dark era, when thuggery and brainwashing is the order of the day.  Sadly most people comply, but there are the few who will lead, who are brave, and who believe that we are free individuals. We are born free.  We are born with God given freedoms where we exercise free choice.  We can choose how we live.    All this repression cannot be happening by accident.  It is by design.  Premiers, Prime Ministers, even Presidents are just puppets serving those behind the scenes, the cabal– the billionaires the bankers, financiers and corporate giants. And as for the ordinary politician?  He or she are just puppets.

But there is hope.  There is always hope.  The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.  There is an in-built passion within human beings for freedom. We have seen tyranny come and go throughout history and freedom reasserts itself. It comes at a price usually by the few sacrificing themselves for the benefit of many. I believe Good will prevail in the end. I do recall that line in the movie “Never Ending Story“ when the young boy confronted the savage, horrible beast (and is there a hidden message here?) and asks it, “Who are you” with the beast replying, “I am just a Messenger,” adding, “when people believe in nothing they are easier to control.” That’s where we are at now, isn’t it?  Our beliefs, our heritage, our religions are mocked and discarded.  People do not believe in anything anymore.  Thus they are easier to control with myths.

Stand firm.  Do not compromise. Let’s keep our faith and trust, attributes that will lead to victory. When the people are constantly fed a message of fear just remember that is because the political elite fear the people. There is a great awakening.

Andrew Inglis Clarke

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Father of Federation and of the Hare Clarke Voting System

Clark, an amazing Tasmania, was a Barrister, Parliamentarian, Attorney-General, electoral reformer and Constitutionalist.

Clark was indeed a ‘sound’ lawyer.  His refusal to accept anything, but an honest and reasonable fee prevented him from making a fortune from his profession. He was, however, more than a lawyer; he was also an engineer, poet, political philosopher and the Father of Australian Federation.

The electorate of Denison has now been changed to Clark, named after Andrew.

He is credited in his first year in the House of Assembly with initiating 150 Ministerial Bills, only one fewer than Henry Parkes.  Some of his Bills dealt with cruelty to animals, legalising trade unions, more orderly control of public houses, the care of destitute children, payment of Members of Parliament and reforming laws on lunacy.

The University of Tasmania was established largely because of his efforts with association with colleague, Neil Elliott Lewis later to become Premier. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 1901-1903.

Clark attended the first conference on Federation held in Hobart in 1886 and in 1890 was a Tasmanian delegate to the Australasian Federation Conference and to the national Australasian Conference in 1891. In his early years, Andrew was taught at home, because of his poor health, by his talented mother, Ann Inglis.  Later he attended the Hobart High School leaving school at 16.  At the age of 24, he decided to study law and in 1877 was admitted to the Bar.

As early as 1874, Clark was a promoter of proportional representation voting as opposed to the one-man, one-vote concept.  In 1878 Clark married in Melbourne Grace Paterson, daughter of John Ross, a Hobart ship builder.  In the same year he was elected to the House of Assembly for Norfolk Plains, but lost in 1882. 

In 1885 Clark founded the Southern Tasmanian Political Reform Association and unsuccessfully stood for election once again in 1886.  During the same year the movement promoting the establishment of a Commonwealth had its birth in Tasmania when on 25th January 1886, the first session of The Federal Council of Australia was opened by Governor Strahan.  Clark, of course, attended.  Later as a member of the Federal Council, he would draft a Federal Constitution for the convention of 1891.

In 1887 Clark was elected and served as Attorney-General under Premier Phillip Oakley Fysh (1835-1919) until 1892.  Sadly in this year of 1887 he lost his son, Melvin Inglis who died in infancy.

In August 1896, Clark was able to introduce proportional representation for Hobart and Launceston for the following year, after heated discussion. It became known as the Hare Clark system. Thomas Hare was an English Barrister. Clark also urged modification such as the transfer of surpluses and reducing the element of chance.  In that year, he was unable to attend the Federal convention because he was in America.

Opposition to the Hare-Clark system was vigorous with petitions being received by the Parliament to abandon it.  On the whole, it would appear electors mastered it quite well. Premier Edward Braddon was urged to adopt it.

In the 20th December 1897 in the Town Hall there was a presentation of an address to Clark for his stand on his constitutional principles. Clark replied by saying how important it was to the adherence to constitutional methods as the only safe guard to public liberty, particularly against the dictatorship of any one man or group of men. Here, I firmly believe he would be appalled how the Australian Constitution has been abused and ignored by the Federal Government and Premiers, because of the current social circumstances. Section 92 and 117 for example guarantees movement of citizens between States while section 51 (xxiiA) is against forced medical procedures, such as mandatory vaccinations or the unconstitutional National Cabinet of Premiers. As Clark would understand without these constitutional provisions we are dominated by those enjoy their new found power.

In 1898 Clark was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and a senior judge in 1901. Clark never enjoyed strong health and the year of his death 1907 (14th November),  proportional voting was adopted for the whole state and used for the first time at a general election, April 1909.  In 1907 the established two party system did not exist in Tasmania.

What type of man was he personally?  James Backhouse, legal practitioner, historian and author states in his book Prelude to Federation (OBM Publishing 1976), “Lewis (N. Elliott) is one of the very, very few, prominent politicians in whom public spirit is at all marked.  A. I. Clark is another.”

The Hare-Clark electoral voting system continues to apply State-wide for the House of Assembly.  It has it detractors, but generally it is well received.

A more detailed article is available in the people section of this site

Australia in the year 2021

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Australia in the year 2021. A police State. A country where our freedoms have been taken away. This is the new RESET. It is a country where those in charge, Police Commissioners, so-called health experts, advisors and Premiers instruct us to inform on our fellow citizens – all for our own good; all in the name of fighting the spread of Covid-19. We now have a two tiered citizenship, those who are vaxxed and those who are not vaxxed. Perhaps the latter should go around with a yellow star sewn to their breasts. The country is hopelessly in debt which grows by the day.

The Premiers have become power drunk; show no compassion, no understanding, lie and are corrupt. Our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, does nothing. He does not lead when he should. Is he just too weak or is he a willing part of the whole rotten system? When the Australian Constitution is abused he says not a word, other than “there’s nothing I can do” even though he can use the High Court. That is what it is there for. Interpreting the Australian Constitution.

I never thought I would see Australia come to this. We live in a world that is beyond imagining a few years ago. A country where police brutally bash fellow citizens while being selective on who can hold demonstrations and who cannot. Compare the treatment between the soft approach to Black Lives Matter and the brutal repression of the Freedom Marches and Workers. The police too are drunk on their new found power. They have forgotten their oath and have become nothing but agents of the government – governments who are corrupt and sinister.

I wonder what those who sacrificed their lives in war would think of the new Australia. What would they think of the mediocre creatures that control our lives called politicians? To be fair a few are standing up for the people, like Pauline Hanson, Mark Latham, Craig Kelly, Campbell Newman, George Christensen, Eric Abetz and Malcolm Roberts. Too few in number. The majority will do what their Party tells them to do. This is the weakness of the Party Political system. Why do we keep voting for the same old parties? Liberal/Labour/National and Greens? After all they are the ones who have destroyed this nation of ours. They are all globalists, believing in the One World Government. They have been taken up on the mountain and have sold their souls to the devil. In the meantime the people suffer, suicides are up, mental health is up, bankruptcies are up, businesses closing down and people struggle financially. Kids can’t play in the parks. Curfews. What nonsense is this? And we are all forced to have the jab. Families cannot visit each other, cannot attend funerals and children are separated from their parents. People cannot attend religious services. This is crazy and callous.

What was it that ex-President of the USA, Ronald Reagan said, “the most dangerous ten words in the English language is, I am from the government, I’m here to help you’’ Governments are not here to help us, they are here to entrench their own power, which is always at the expense of the people. Remember the section in the bible, when the people screamed and demanded to have government run by mortals. It was the prophet Samuel who warned them of the dangers awaiting them. (1 Samuel 8). Fellow prophet Jeremiah was to write, “The heart is wicked above all things, who can know it?” (17:9). And so it is with human nature – not to serve, but to be served. Our Premiers, little people who have no souls, fulfil that status.
In my humble opinion and I hope I am wrong, but Australia is (to put it crudely) “stuffed”. But there is something more here than just Australia – it is a world-wide phenomenon that is going on. Repression throughout the western world. It’s working to an agenda. Those in charge are evil in the extreme.

Much of the mainstream media are co-operating in this, mouthing the government line that we all need to give up our freedom for the betterment of all, but with no clear indication when those freedoms will be given back – which will be never. We have entered a new era, a dark era, when thuggery and brainwashing is the order of the day. Sadly most people comply, but there are the few who will lead, who are brave, and who believe that we are free individuals. God has given us our freedom, not governments. We can choose how we live. All this cannot be happening by accident. It is by design. Premiers, Prime Ministers, even Presidents are just puppets serving those behind the scenes, the cabals who are calling the shots – the billionaires the bankers, financiers and corporate giants. And as for the ordinary politician? He or she are again just puppets, but lower down on the chain, while the useful idiots are the brainless robots that implement their will without knowing it in every facet of society.

But there is hope. There is always hope. The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. There is an in-built passion within human beings for freedom. We have seen tyranny come and go throughout history and freedom reasserts itself. It comes at a price usually by the few sacrificing themselves for the benefit of many. I believe Good will prevail in the end. I do recall that line in the movie “Never Ending Story “when the young boy confronted the savage, horrible beast (and is there a hidden message here?), who said “I am just a Messenger,” adding, “when people believe in nothing they are easier to control.” That’s where we are at now, isn’t it? Our beliefs, our heritage, our religions are mocked and discarded. People do not believe in anything anymore. Thus they are easier to control with myths like global warming and that we all going to die because of the virus if we do not do as we are told. They are superior beings, the political elite. Yet, we are “all in it together” which is just sheer nonsense and hypocritical.
Stand firm. Do not compromise. Keep your faith and trust, attributes that will lead to victory. Whereas wen the people are constantly being fed a message of fear; just remember that is because the political elite fear the people.