Australian Lamington Website

Lamingtons featured in the debate at the Australian Constitutional Convention

Cr Paul Tully - Supporting an
Australian Republic at the 1998
 Constitutional Convention.
It might be a world removed from the colonial days of Lord Lamington's reign as the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, but strange as it may seem, lamingtons featured in the debate at the Australian Constitutional Convention in Canberra in 1998 on whether or not Australia should become a republic.

In a spirited - if slightly light-hearted speech - Cr Paul Tully examined the role of the various Australian colonial and state governors since 1788.  

Cr Paul Tully addresses the media outside
 the Old Parliament House in Canberra
where the issue of the humble Aussie
lamington became the focus of debate.
He questioned the worth of the state governors and their role if Australia were to become a republic.

According to Hansard page 728 at the Australian Constitutional Convention in Canberra on 11 February 1998, Cr Paul Tully, an elected delegate representing "Queenslanders for a Republic" suggested that his extensive research of the Governors of the six Australian colonies and states had produced evidence of only "one, single, solitary, positive achievement of any Governor since the First Fleet arrived in 1788" and that was Lord Lamington's contribution to the culinary delights of the Australian nation!

Lord Lamington served Queensland for 5 years but despite all of his colonial, aristocratic pomp and ceremony, the only thing which Charles Wallace Alexander Napier COCHRANE-BAILLIE will ever be remembered for in Australia is the creation of the world-famous lamington.

Long live the humble Aussie lamington!

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