After the determined efforts of the Newman Liberal National Government in Queensland to reinforce the monarchy at every turn, there is hope that things will change – and change back – under the new Labor Government elected in January. Find out what the Queensland Government was up to between 2012 and 2014 and review the stats for the Republic vote in 1999 when Queensland had the lowest YES vote of any State or Territory – click on link. [“Language of Monarchy over in Queensland?” by Glenn Davies, Independent Australia online, 13 March 2015]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
