The official “Clean for the Queen” campaign 4-6 March, in which citizens were encouraged to tidy-up Britain for our monarch’s 90th birthday, might have had establishment support but it didn’t go down well on social media. Thankfully, we didn’t do that here either for the 90th or when she last visited in late 2011 probably because civic- and environmentally-minded Australia has its own national clean-up day in early March every year not connected with the head of state.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
