It would be a face saving act if the journalists who had already insinuated that the attack was the work of Alqaeda Muslims, retracted their statements and apologized to the Muslim world this time round.

In 1999 Australia had a referendum to become a republic. The referendum failed because we were offered an undemocratic model. At that time I wrote this democratic model, which I have recently revised.

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