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The Crown is right that Bob Hawke was a republican. But aspects of his portrayal are preposterous – The Guardian
Hawke had a friendly relationship with the Queen and designated himself, with characteristic bravado, as her ‘favourite prime minister’
The most disappointing part of the Netflix soap opera The Crown is not, from an Australian point of view, its colonial caricature of Bob Hawke insulting the Queen and plotting the constitutional ejection of the Windsors.
Nor is it the use of Spanish locations and extras to depict Australian cities, landscape and people.
It is surely the misappropriation of the term terra nullius.
The producers of The Crown show how clever they are in recreating every last detail of Princess Dianas frocks and gowns….
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