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Earlier I was reading this and was struck by the phrasing in paragraph 6, "...damage to Commonwealth property...". I realised that he was referring to the Commonwealth of Australia and not the Commonwealth of Nations but it seemed an odd way of saying it. So:
Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 10:49, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
In a former life, I worked for a time at the now-defunct Department of Tourism. As it was a department of the Commonwealth Government, its letterhead etc read "Commonwealth Department of Tourism", to distinguish it from any similarly-named state departments. But the rub was that it dealt predominantly with tourism into and out of Australia, not interstate tourism. So, when senior people went to conferences etc, met their foreign counterparts, and handed over their business cards, the recipients would often wonder whether the person was representing the entire Commonwealth of Nations, not just Australia. After a while, sanity prevailed and the word "Commonwealth" was dropped from the stationery. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 19:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)