Indigenous activist, Evelyn Scott dies. Her distinguished career and profile as an educator and social justice campaigner for equal rights made her a candidate at the top of WfaAR’s list for Head of State in any Australian Republic. Dr Scott was a unfailing proponent of Indigenous rights, a pioneering administrator for Indigenous self-determination, protector of the Great Barrier Reef and, later, Chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1997-2000. She was also closely associated with the successful 1967 referendum. WfaAR recalls sitting next to her, in her trade mark black hat, during one session at the 1997 Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne. [“Dr Evelyn Scott, Indigenous rights activist and ‘trailblazer’ dies aged 81” by Miriam Corowa and Kirsty Nancarrow, ABC online, 21 September 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
