WfaAR’s Sarah Brasch explains how long it took to get the six Australian States and the Commonwealth on the same page to give effect to changes that the British wanted to make to their succession laws. She finds a complex and conflicted process which shows how out of date our constitutional arrangements really are, much too slow and cumbersome for the 21st century. Read Sarah’s article “The Future of the Federation: constitutionally weak and foreign” written for Independent Australia online and published on 14 April 2015.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
