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The Returned and Services League of Australia Limited (RSL) has been found to be discriminating against republicans by refusing membership to applicants who will not swear allegiance to Liz Windsor, Britain's hereditary head of state. The Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal found that Donald Buchanan, who had been refused membership of the veterans' league, had been discriminated against because of his political opinions.

The tribunal has yet to make an order on the case but Australian republicans believe that it will lead to veterans pledging their allegiance to Australia rather than queen Windsor. Republicans elsewhere hope it may be the first step towards ending discrimination against fellow thinkers in other countries that have Windsor as head of state.

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Nigel Farage, UK Independence Party member of the European Parliament, has urged that queen Windsor dissolve Britain's parliament to prevent British approval of a proposed new constitution for the European Union. An alternative suggestion from Mr. Farage was that Windsor refuse to sign legislation approving the new constitution, according to the Sun newspaper.

Constitutional historian David Starkey told the same newspaper that he believed that the hereditary head of state had a duty to act to stop democratic legislators agreeing what he called "a fundamental change in the way we are governed." The dissolution of parliament would be "the nuclear option" said the monarchist. According to the Sun Prof. Starkey believes that his monarchy might be destroyed if Windsor used this option. It would result in a general election that would be seen as a referendum on the monarchy, he said.

The tabloid Sun also claimed that the Windsor family was alarmed by the new European constitution and was taking legal advice. The newspaper reported that the Windsors believe that they have a say in British foreign policy that they would lose if the European constitution were to be approved.

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Immigration is to be made easy for the foreign wife-to-be of Denmark's so called Prince Frederick. Parliament will be pass a law to make his Australian girlfriend a citizen and taxpayers money will ensure that she does not have to demonstrate financial self-sufficiency.

Immigrants usually have to wait as long as nine years and prove themselves fluent in Danish to qualify for citizenship. Many Danes are unable to return to the land of their birth with their foreign spouses because of tough immigration controls. Recent laws require that both partners be aged at least 24, own a home in Denmark, provide a bond of £4900 and be financially self-supporting. A large number of Danes who have lived abroad for many years find themselves effectively in exile.

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