Spinal surgery risks death, paralysis, permanent posture disfigurement and crippling pain.
The disease was trivial compared to the proposed drastic cure, so my wife rejected the suggestion. A sensible stance, but the opposite to that being embraced by the nation. For trivial reasons Australians wish to embark upon the path of constitutional surgery and become a republic, a drastic operation fraught with danger. Changing the constitution is tinkering with the foundations of law and order, and can easily explode out of control, plunging the nation into anarchy or tyranny. Immediately north of our spacious continent is a group of islands that are burgeoning with humanity.