The latest Newspoll on the republic is published in The Australian with a dissection by gender. To the question, “Are you personally in favour or against Australia becoming a Republic”, 45 percent of women were in favour (compared with 57 percent of men), 39 percent were against (compared with 34 percent) and 16 percent of women were uncommitted (compared with 9 percent). This is a better question than the usual polling as it does not refer to the monarchy or the Queen. Poll conducted all States, city and country 28 to 31 January 2016 with 1837 interviews and maximum sampling error of 3 percent.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
