Gary Younge, writing in The UK Guardian, states that “the NHS makes us more proud to be British than the monarchy”. Neither count is near the top of our united feelings and brings the difference between being Australian and being British starkly into focus. The foreign, British, monarchy is nowhere near defining what being Australian is or what Australians are proud of. [“Histories of the Windrush and the NHS run in parallel” by Gary Younge, The Guardian Weekly, 29 June – 5 July 2018]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
