Results of vote (see News for 22 May): 97.18 percent of votes cast in favour of US statehood on a very low turnout of 22.99 percent. The non-binding referendum was the fifth vote in Puerto Rico’s history since 1493 on becoming part of the USA. The vote in favour was significantly increased over the last one in 2012. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. Its inhabitants are natural-born citizens of the US who may move freely between the island and the mainland but who do not have a vote in the US Congress and cannot vote for the President or Vice-President.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
