Although a non-Catholic, I congratulate Il Papa on his decision to voluntarily join us retired geriatrics at a respectable age.
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Let's hope it's contagious, and that our own head of state (same age) will do likewise, leaving us to become a republic at last.
Although if she does, I might start to believe that pigs might fly, and (an appropriate analogy) that Australia's mining magnates might give some of their similarly inherited wealth back to the nation.
Geoff Armstrong
Monash
