Very unfortunate it is but the advent of Donald J Trump as the elected President of the United States of America – even though he didn’t win the popular vote – is not going to do much for Australian women’s support for our Republic. In fact, it will be a big negative. They will be watching him very closely to see how he behaves, how women react to him, what he does or does not do for women and how his republic works, even though it is vastly different from the one proposed for Australia in which the Head of State has a mainly ceremonial role and is not the head of government.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
