Reinstated in todays 2017-18 funding announcement by the Federal Government is $170m to conduct a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – but only as a contingency, that is, a risk of unexpected expenditure, if for some reason, it came back onto the boil after being rejected by the Senate last year. WfaAR assesses this possibility as 99.95 percent unlikely but you never know. This funding was removed in the 2016-17 mid year Budget review resulting in a saving of $154m.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
