Queen Elizabeth II platinum jubilee
Dr BACH (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:51): I also want to pay homage to the Queen today. It was wonderful to see over the weekend in Britain fantastic celebrations—fitting celebrations—for her platinum jubilee. It is amazing that Her Majesty the Queen has spent 70 years on the throne—70 years of quite extraordinary duty and application to her role as our head of state here in Australia. The question of our system of government is one which I feel different people of goodwill can have different views regarding. For mine, however, I sincerely hope that Her Majesty and Her Majesty’s heirs and successors will forever reign over us here in Victoria. Based on recent information, any one of us could soon be joining the ranks of failed former politicians, and certainly my view is that it would be quite a chilling thing in future to see perhaps a President Kevin or a President Malcolm—heaven forbid a President Dan. Instead we should stay with what we have now, the outstanding system whereby the Queen has served us so brilliantly for such an extraordinary period of time, as I am sure her heirs and successors will also do. God save the Queen.