Hail to the chief

If Australia were to become a republic would Queensland be called Presidentsland? Presidentsland, on at City Hall on July 29 as part of the Queensland Music Festival "explores in music and words, the often-contemplated and always contentious subject of what our future might smell, taste, feel, look and of course sound like", according to artistic director Deborah Conway. On stage will be composer and jazz muso Paul Grabowsky with former Paul Keating speechwriter and author Don Watson; painist and composer Erik Griswold with poet and novelist Rodney Hall; and former Saints member Ed Kuepper with novelist and academic Venero Armanno. Details of this and other QMP events here.
PS: On the subject of the Queen, it's been revealed that maintaining the British royal family costs $85 million a year. Perhaps that's what monarchist David Flint will do if he wins Oz Lotto.