East Arnhem Land leaders call for Australia to become a Republic. They claim that removing the Queen would be more meaningful to Indigenous people than constitutional recognition and call for significant – not symbolic – new change to Australia’s system of government to better empower the nation’s First Peoples. This is a good development and WfaAR hopes to see more of it from Indigenous leaders in both the NT and elsewhere. Read the article on link below for more information. [“NT indigenous leaders call for Australia to be republic as country marks 50th anniversary of 1967 referendum” by Matt Garrick, NT News online 27 May 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
