ARM adopts its first national policy and strategy to attract more women to support the Republic. This long overdue development – an issue that WfaAR has long urged ARM to address directly – was the result of lengthy deliberations within ARM. Women’s support for the Republic has consistently run 10 to 15 percent lower than men’s since 1999, varying between 36 and 40 percent in polls. Women’s Networks will be set up in each State and Territory. By October 2017, the groups had been established in NSW, Tasmania and the ACT with work underway in Vic, WA and SA. The strategy has not been shared with other republican organisations.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
