On 9 September, Queen Elizabeth II of England will become the longest reigning Australian – and British – monarch. This provoked sharp analysis from Polly Toynbee in The Guardian of the sort we never see in the Australian media. Why is this so? Toynbee says that there is little remarkable about Elizabeth’s reign and that the charade should end with this queen before she hands over to the longest ever Prince of Wales in waiting. [“Let Queen Elizabeth reign until the end – then stop this charade” by Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 1 September 2015] . To access the article, which attracted 3,276 comments, click on the link below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
