RE: National Characteristics?

> From: 	Darryl Hills[SMTP:dhills@wr.com.au]
> Subject:	Re: National Characteristics?
> 
> 
	>The OU are about to rid themselves of ties to the outdated
monarchy of the
	>NAC.  We are in the process of a convention to determine
whether Australia
	>becomes a republic by the year 2000, dumps the engish queen as
our head of
	>state and elects our own President.
If we can make up our minds as to who we will allow to be nomated. Mind
you it took how many days to decide we call the new head of state
'President'??????? And we will still have a Prime Minister!?

>  > So I guess we will be buying our starships from who ever gives us
> the best
	>offer.  Or we will build them ourselves!
> Er, we actually have been doing that sort of thing for a while now.
> F88 steyr - Austrian (but we did buy the licence to build our own),
> Milan and Ground Surveillance Radar - French, Minimi - FN, FA-18 -USA
> and we are starting to build our own Submarines and smaller ships. And
> given the New Zealand purchasing record of best available at best
> price the OU have got a solid history of this already.
> 
> Owen G
> (can I interest you in a Harbour Bridge?)