Fairfax journalist Aubrey Perry makes a pertinent point in this article (click on link): Australia cannot be a secular state – as it must be given its origins and status as a modern, progressive, multi-ethnic democracy – as long as its Head of State is also Head of the Church of England. [“This survey is about much more than same-sex marriage” by Aubrey Perry, Fairfax online, 2 September 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
