Great Britain

You've gotta love the Poms. They have no laundries (their washing machines are usually in their kitchens), they rarely have showers (their home reno shows are full of bathrooms with baths only), and they invaded a land full of people while declaring that same continent terra nullius*. They also sent thousands of young Aussie men to their death in far flung places across the globe, all in the name of British Sovereignty. Now as these countries, once coloured in red on our Empire maps, dwindle to nothing it's time to remember the words of Edward Kelly all those years ago:

"...to serve under a flag and nation that has destroyed massacreed and murdered their fore-fathers by the greatest of torture as rolling them down hill in spiked barrels pulling their toe and finger nails and on the wheel. and every torture imaginable more was transported to Van Diemand's Land to pine their young lives away in starvation and misery among tyrants worse than the promised hell itself all of true blood bone and beauty, that was not murdered on their own soil, or had fled to America or other countries to bloom again another day, were doomed to Port Mcquarie Toweringabbie norfolk island and Emu plains and in those places of tyrany and condemnation many a blooming Irishman rather than subdue to the Saxon yoke Were flogged to death and bravely died in servile chains but true to the shamrock and a credit to Paddys land..."
Ned Kelly, Jerilderie Letter

So to the country who gave the world the concentration camp** forty years before the Nazi's thought of it, maybe it's time to list all the reasons why our great national of Australia should cut our ties from the Union Jack forever:

Remember the republic? Thomas Keneally 12/11/07
Queen's death will spark republic vote smh.com.au 28/01/08
Summit to restart republic call Katharine Murphy 09/04/08
Australians should choose their republic and president Greg Barns 10/04/08
Chocks away: princes fly RAF chopper to bucks party AAP 17/04/08
Delegates want republic in two years AAP 19/04/08
Anger as William lands chopper in Kate's yard AAP 21/04/08
Prince William pips John Howard to knighthood Lucy Bennett and wires 23/04/08
No republic while Queen on throne' Doug Conway 23/04/08
No knighthood for former PM Howard AAP 25/04/08
Police probe Harry's high-speed nightclub dash AAP 18/05/08
His royal tightness pays after 350 years Agence France-Presse 12/06/08
Royals cost taxpayers a queen's ransom Peter Griffiths 27/06/08
Queen in need of a renovation rescue Stephen Bates 29/06/08
Princely sum for a royal taxi service Audrey Gillan 01/07/08

*During the era of European colonialism the doctrine gave legal force to the claiming and settlement of lands occupied by "backward" people, where no system of laws or ownership of property was held to exist. The Swiss philosopher and international law theorist Emerich de Vattel, building on the philosophy of John Locke and others, proposed that terra nullius applied to uncultivated land. As the indigenous people were not (in this view) using the land, those who could cultivate the land had a right to claim it.

**The British victory in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) was secured through the use of "scorched earth" tactics, including the use of concentration camps. In fact, the concentration camps used by the British in the Second Boer War were the first to exist. The Second Boer War was an inevitable solution to the question of who was to control Southern Africa - the British or the Boers?