The media has its eyes keenly trained on the Queen who turns 91 this year. There was extensive coverage of the her failure to attend a New Year church service due to a heavy cold with very regular reports about our head of state’s health and prospects. This continued for several days until HM was deemed to have made a full recovery and returned to the New Year festivities at Sandringham.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
