Polling shows that women not only were the majority of new enrolments on the electoral roll ahead of the same sex marriage vote but are also strong supporters of the proposition, significantly ahead of men’s support, 64 percent to 52 percent. In some age groups eg 25-44, women’s support is around 75 percent. This is of keen interest to republicans who deduce from this data that women’s support for legal (and constitutional) change is issue specific. Women’s support for the Republic has been consistently 10 percent lower than men’s support, around 36 to 40 percent, since the referendum in 1999.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
