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Sadly, Aliantha doesn't live in a free country so she doesn't understand such concepts. The people of Australia and the nations who didn't break away from the British Empire on their own like America, are used to being "subjects" rather than citizens.
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Australia is a member of the Commonwealth. We are a nation in our own right and we legislate ourselves.
We are a free country. We just define freedom in terms other than whether or not we can walk down the street carrying a gun.
I see nothing wrong with our ties to the UK. More than half of the citizens of Australia have family still living there or are less than one generation removed. Rather I am proud of the fact that my country could evolve without the need to go to war to prove we had earned it.