Senator Lisa Singh says Australia’s collective shock on hearing the announcement underscores why the monarchy is an anachronism for us and how alien the concept of knighthoods is to our contemporary identity. She also comments that the Prime Minister and his government are looking backwards into the past focused on monarchical models. He is, she says, “leading a government of yesterdays men furiously advocating last century’s ideas”. WfaAR would make that the 19th rather than 20th century. Lisa Singh is a Labor Senator for Tasmania and co-convenor of the Australian Parliamentary Branch of Labor for an Australian Republic. [“The Prince Phillip Knighthood and the Australian Republic by Lisa Singh, The Diplomat, 5 February 2015]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
