One of the founding members of the Australian Republican Movement, Geraldine Doogue, was invited to attend the Democracy 100 event at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Canberra. MOAD co-hosted the event with the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. In 2016 and 2017, these organisations conducted quantitative and qualitative surveys on the relationship between trust in the political system and attitudes towards democracy in Australia. Both of these topics are key issues for the implementation of an Australian Republic and any votes that are conducted, be they plebiscites or referendums. Read Geraldine’s report on the after-dinner entertainment featuring a new democracy game. She was one of the four female founding members of ARM in 1991 (of a total of 14), the others were Franca Arena, Faith Bandler and Jenny Kee.[“Democracy in 2017 needs fewer stunts and swords, more genuine discussion” by Geraldine Doogue, ABC online, 25 August 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
