We were invited to talk to the ALP’s new Shadow Minister for an Australian Head of State to add the women’s perspective to Labor’s first concrete steps towards voting for a Republic (see also News Item for 24 October 2017 about Matt’s appointment). The discussion was not only wide ranging but we were pleased to note genuine enthusiasm for the task and a keenness to get going. We talked about ways to address women’s consistently low support for Republic and identified some of the possible points of hesitancy. We also put forward a suite of possible questions for any plebiscite especially if there is only one preliminary vote before the necessary referendum and stressed the need to ask more than one YES/NO question with a minimum of two questions (click on link for more info). This was encouraging and we look forward to working further with Matt.
Download: Plebiscite Questions [45KB, pdf]
