Commentators continue to write about the PM’s appearance and speech at the ARM anniversary dinner nearly two weeks after the event. This time, Amanda Vanstone reports about being accosted at a Liberal Party branch meeting by a monarchist infuriated that the PM had even attended – strange, he is a very well known, if not the best known, republican in the country and did bankroll the Republic campaign in 1999. Amanda says she spoke up for Malcolm’s right to join in – even if he heads a conservative government – and we add, that is full of republic supporters. Read the article below. [“How to argue with a narcissist” by Amanda Vanstone, Fairfax Media, 1 and 2 January 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
