A challenging piece appears on the PBS Newshour website (US public broadcasting, privately funded) about the fundamentals of the US Constitution in hindsight and in the hands of artists and interpreters. We also need to get to grips with what “we the people” implies and what a new Australian Constitution might contain. The first steps in this process are happening now with the protracted, difficult and controversial progress to recognise our First Peoples in the Constitution. Click on link below. [“These provocative posters will make you think differently about ‘We the People'” by Elizabeth Flock, PBS Newshour online, 22 September 2017]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
