Scotland First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announces that she intends to hold a second independence referendum between autumn 2018 and spring 2019 as Britain heads towards a tough exit from the EU due to be triggered this month. Recent opinion polls show support at around 50 percent for both sides. “Any pretence that the UK was a partnership of equal nations was now dead,” Sturgeon said. The British Government has to agree that the referendum can be held. For more details click on the link below. [“Scottish Independence: Nicola Sturgeon fires starting gun on referendum”, by Severin Carroll, The Guardian online 14 March 2017]. The next day, British PM, Theresa May rejected the call for a referendum before Brexit has been completed which implies a vote in 2021 at the earliest if the UK Government agrees at all.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
