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Prince Harry In Sydney

icyfroth — Thu, 07 May 2015 01:31:46 GMT

PRINCE Harry has appeared in a helicopter over Bondi Beach as part of a military exercise in Sydney this morning causing a wave of adoring fans to look to the skies.

did Donna wave to him I wonder?

He will be greeted by NSW Premier Mike Baird at the Opera House at 12.30pm and give Aussies the chance to see their favourite red-headed royal.

Prince Harry will be in Wellington on Saturday, and his New Zealand trip will take him from Stewart Island in the far south to Auckland on the North Island.

His warrior skills will be put to the test when he learns the army’s own haka when visiting Linton Military Camp during the week-long tour.

The prince — who has twice been deployed in Afghanistan — will retire from the British defence force at the end of the trip. He will then travel back to the UK, where he will meet his newborn niece, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

Entire Article Here

I'd love to see him doing the Haka lol

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2015 01:59:37 GMT

i might go and say hi

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cherry*135 — Thu, 07 May 2015 02:02:05 GMT

I would if I was near there.

Take some photos for us.

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:13:58 GMT

I better get out the good coffee cups and vac the floor 🙂

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gleee58 — Thu, 07 May 2015 07:21:23 GMT

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lurker172602 — Thu, 07 May 2015 08:08:34 GMT

I just saw the channel 9 news piece on his visit today. I'm far from a royalist but I think he comes across as a generally decent, pleasant bloke. He doesn't even have a particularly plummy accent.

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

gleee58 — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:13:49 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
I just saw the channel 9 news piece on his visit today. I'm far from a royalist but I think he comes across as a generally decent, pleasant bloke. He doesn't even have a particularly plummy accent.

I wonder if he knows number 982 was told by a previous minister he'd never be allowed to practice medicine in Australia.

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lurker172602 — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:24:48 GMT

@gleee58 wrote:
@lurker172602 wrote:
I just saw the channel 9 news piece on his visit today. I'm far from a royalist but I think he comes across as a generally decent, pleasant bloke. He doesn't even have a particularly plummy accent.
I wonder if he knows number 982 was told by a previous minister he'd never be allowed to practice medicine in Australia.

Huh?

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

gleee58 — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:29:59 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
@gleee58 wrote:
@lurker172602 wrote:
I just saw the channel 9 news piece on his visit today. I'm far from a royalist but I think he comes across as a generally decent, pleasant bloke. He doesn't even have a particularly plummy accent.
I wonder if he knows number 982 was told by a previous minister he'd never be allowed to practice medicine in Australia.
Huh?

He asked to meet the doctor (because of his work for British veterans), formally known by number when in detention centre.

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

lloydslights — Thu, 07 May 2015 19:44:51 GMT

@gleee58 wrote:
@lurker172602 wrote:
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I wonder if he knows number 982 was told by a previous minister he'd never be allowed to practice medicine in Australia.

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I couldn't find any evidence of the statement he'd never be allowed to practice medicine in Australia. However, I did find ......

So how did this one-time boat person get to where he is today? At Curtin Detention Centre in WA’s far north Kimberley region, where he landed after arriving on a leaky, overcrowded wooden boat on 8 November, 1999, he was warned not to set his expectations too high.

As an English speaker, he had the opportunity to speak to then immigration minister Philip Ruddock during an official inspection of the facility. "We were having a conversation and I said that I was a doctor," recalls Dr Al Muderis. "He said you will probably never prove your qualification [in Australia]."

This, however, appears to have only strengthened the young doctor’s resolve. “If you want something and you are determined, anything is possible,” he says. “Australia is the land of opportunity."

http://www.aww.com.au/latest-news/news-stories/from-penniless-prisoner-to-bionic-surgeon-9574

DEB

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

polksaladallie — Thu, 07 May 2015 21:32:35 GMT

Clutching at straws.

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icyfroth — Thu, 07 May 2015 23:03:48 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
Clutching at straws.

The good doctor clutched at every opportunity this country gave him.

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polksaladallie — Fri, 08 May 2015 00:15:38 GMT

Kudos +++ to him for doing so.

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gleee58 — Fri, 08 May 2015 00:17:09 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
Clutching at straws.

The good doctor clutched at every opportunity this country gave him.

Thank goodness for that. He has improved the lives of so many.

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:18:50 GMT

@gleee58 wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
Clutching at straws.

The good doctor clutched at every opportunity this country gave him.
Thank goodness for that. He has improved the lives of so many.

Unlike many of his compatriots who went straight on to welfare and stayed there.

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

lloydslights — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:41:53 GMT

What a lovely picture.....makes me a bit teary eyed

DEB

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:50:11 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:

What a lovely picture.....makes me a bit teary eyed

DEB

You can see why he's so beloved of the public.

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serendipityricho — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:59:48 GMT

Looks a bit like a young--Phil the Greek and Dame Edna.........................................Richo.

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lind9650 — Sat, 09 May 2015 09:17:33 GMT

What impressed me from that scene is that Captain Wales went down on one knee to be at eye level with the lady Veteran, so she would not have to look up at him. Such courtesy from a young royal would not have happened many years ago.

Erica

Re: Prince Harry In Sydney

lurker172602 — Sat, 09 May 2015 09:23:36 GMT

and now he's at the rugby in Wellington wearing a 'caines scarf. Gotta be a good bloke 😄