Tony Abbott. “Monarchy is the tie that binds us together.” The Age. November 29, 2006 – “The very idea of the monarchy offends people accustomed to think in aggressive slogans. It’s “foreign”, although that has never been held against other institutions to which great deference is offered (such as the United Nations). It’s shared with other countries, but so is our language and no one (so far) wants to change that.”