Sydney columnist and Howard favourite Miranda Devine suggests in the Daily Telegraph that ex PM Tony Abbott should be appointed the next Governor-General. This is a totally unsuitable job for Abbott and would only give rise to slumbering but dangerously volatile sympathies not far below the surface of daily life to have a directly elected and Australian Head of State. Her fallback was that he should be appointed Minster for Defence but why should our first female Defence Minister, Marise Payne, make way for him?
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
