No good news for Australian Republicans

This excerpt is taken from the ACM weekly newsletter and details some interesting, (and heartening), results from the Readers Digest 2008 Most Trusted survey

According to the Readers’ Digest “ Most Trusted” 2008 Annual Survey, Australians would trust The Queen more than other famous Australians.

A likely candidate to lead the list of the most trusted would be Australian and have links to Princess Diana, someone on whom the nation could cast its aspirations, demographer Bernard Salt told The Sydney Moring Herald reporter Yuko Narushima (“In Wiggles we trust - and [Princess] Mary can mind the house, “ 19 June, 2008).

"If Prince William were to come to Australia and pick a bride from the western suburbs of Sydney who worked at a kindergarten, she'd have all of the pistons working in her direction," he said.

Australia’s 100 most trusted professions list will make dismal reading for republicans.

Concentrated as they are among the elites, especially the politicians and journalists, they are at the bottom with CEO's, psychics and astrologers being slightly more trusted.

Journalists, most of whom are republican, are thought to be only slightly more trustworthy than real estate agents, prostitutes, car salesmen.

Politicians – about two thirds of whom are republican - were said to be the least trustworthy, but for the profession of telemarketers.

This gives some indication of how people will react to republican arguments in a plebiscite or another referendum.