Men’s support for the Republic still outscores women’s 48 percent to 37, consistent and persistent. That’s the finding of the latest Fairfax-IPSOS poll 11-13 February 2016. City dwellers are ahead of regional and rural, 45 percent to 37 (that’s a lift) while ALP supporters at 56 percent and Greens at 59 percent are well ahead of Coalition voters at 32 (surprising). The random sample of landline and mobile numbers was 1403. Note to pollsters and journalists: being a republic and having an Australian head of state are not the same thing. Primrose Riordan’s report in the Australian Financial Review is on link below [“Australia Day Republic Push Fails to Move Voters” by Primrose Riordan, AFR, 15 February 2016]. Interesting to see both Newspoll and fairfax-IPSOS testing the pulse on republic support so soon after the noisy Australia Day flurry.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
