Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announces that Barbados will remove the Queen and create a ceremonial President for his small Caribbean country colonised by the British in 1627. Barbados became independent in 1966 and has also in the last few years been visited by a number of British royals. Jamaica announced similar plans in January 2012 (see News Item for 6 Jan) but has not achieved the change to date. [“Barbados Plans to remove Queen as head of State almost 400 years after British colonisation” by Lizzie Dearden, The Independent online 23 March 2015. Note Australian PM Julia Gillard in one of the accompanying photos.]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
